Welcome

An incredibly busy week in the world of Web operations and security. You know it's a bad week when an SHA-1 collision isn't the biggest or even second biggest story, spots taken by a major leak/vulnerability in Cloudflare, and a major AWS outage, both linked below.

Jobs
Want to work on a high-traffic, popular web app? Come and talk to us about Ruby, SmartOS, MySQL, Kafka or burritos.
FreeAgent
Wimdu are looking for an Engineer with 3+ years experience to help define a solid strategy for ensuring future growth of our platform.
Wimdu
In brief
Can deliver up to 3.3M IOPS and 16GB/sec sequential disk throughput.
Amazon
Mozilla Hacks
The market-wide drop in virtual server pricing continues.
Vultr
Kamaljit Bath
eWeek
Monitoring is highly important in running apps at scale. Apply best practices from this book to avoid pitfalls.
VividCortex   sponsored 
Gareth Dwyer
Tom Wilkie
Cloudcast
Why you might benefit from letting this popular paradigm rest in peace.
Michael S.​ Mikowski
Shlomi Ben Haim
See how Rollbar pairs perfectly with New Relic to give you greater coverage and insights into your application errors. Get x-ray vision into broken code. Learn more.
Rollbar   sponsored 
github.​com
Thomas Hollstegge
Could be handy if working close to the metal.
Milian Wolff