#122: Dynamic Scaling for Microservices with the HAProxy Runtime API

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Issue 122 — June 28, 2017

Dynamic Scaling for Microservices with the HAProxy Runtime API   tutorial  HAProxy has a ‘Runtime API’ which can be used to dynamically scale backend servers up and down during runtime. Chad Lavoie Is It Possible to Host Facebook on AWS?   story  If you like fun thought experiments, here’s some analysis on whether AWS could meet Facebook’s server needs. If it had to. SQLizer Blog End-to-end visibility into your web apps Graph and alert on custom metrics from your web apps and 200+ other techs across every layer of your stack. Datadog   sponsored  Making The Internet Archive’s Full Text Search Faster   story  How the Internet Archive made their full-text organic search faster — without scaling horizontally — allowing users to search across 35 million documents in seconds. Giovanni Damiola XSS Attacks: The Next Wave   story  The latest data on XSS attacks, vulnerabilities and prevalence — which “indicate we are in the midst of a ‘next wave’ of XSS”. Guy Podjarny MongoDB Launches Stitch, A New Backend As A Service Tool   news  Sits on top of the MongoDB database and helps developers stitch together different third-party services, Mongo Charts, etc. MongoDB GitHub API Authentication using OAuth 2.0   tutorial  Using OAuth 2.0 to authenticate and create a repository on GitHub using the GitHub API. Insomnia Jobs Site Reliability Engineer (London, UK) £50-100k based on exp + equity. Work in the dev and systems world, implementing our core architecture and tackling interesting challenges to serve 100M+ users per month. Yelp   sponsored  In brief RFC 8188: Encrypted Content-Encoding for HTTP   news  IETF Red Hat Launches A Platform to Run Hyperconverged Infrastructure   news  The New Stack $20 Free Credit on a New Account Linux cloud hosting starting at 1GB of RAM for $5/mo. Use promo code WEBOPS20 and get $20 credit. linode   sponsored  Kubernetes on Bare Metal Explained in 10 Minutes   tutorial  Alex Ellis Kubernetes: An Introduction to Deploying a Node.js Docker App   tutorial  SitePoint 5 Protocols For Event-Driven API Architectures   tutorial  Kristopher Sandoval An AWS Security Primer   tutorial  Cloudonaut The AWS Spend of a SaaS Side-Business   story  Shane Harter Why Isn't Everyone Using DNSSEC?   story  APNIC Digital Magic: Disney's DevOps Transformation   story  The New Stack Things You Should Know Before using Amazon’s Elasticsearch on AWS   opinion  Liz Bennett FPGAs and the New Era of Cloud-Based 'Hardware Microservices'   opinion  Mary Branscombe Try Codeship Basic: simple hosted CI that works out of the box Get set up with our hosted Continuous Integration service in under 3 minutes. Join thousands of customers like InvisionApp & Whole Foods. Codeship   sponsored  A Sortable AWS Instance Price Guide   tools  You can sort by memory, memory per dollar, storage, etc. instaguide.​io Introducing Dash: Create Reactive Web Apps in Pure Python   tools  Chris P K8Guard: An Auditing System for Kubernetes Clusters   tools  Target AWLess: A Command Line Interface (CLI) to Manage Amazon Web Services   tools  Wallix pam_hook: A PAM Based Webhook Authentication for Kubernetes   code  Àbéjídé Àyodélé Read this issue on the Web See our archives Change your email address Stop getting this newsletter Published by Cooperpress Fairfield Enterprise Centre, Lincoln Way, Louth, LN11 0LS, UK