#129: AWS Glue - A New Extract, Transfer, and Load Service

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Issue 129 — August 16, 2017

APIs as Infrastructure: Future-Proofing Stripe with Versioning   story  “When it comes to APIs, change isn’t popular.. “ and one way to help is to use a versioning scheme for its URLs, as Stripe has done. Brandur Leach AWS Glue: A New Extract, Transfer, and Load (ETL) Service   tools  A new managed service from AWS for ETL jobs. Uses Spark under the hood and in one region only for now. Amazon Web Services GitHub Goes All in on Kubernetes   story  The story behind how GitHub has scaled, how they evaluated Kubernetes, and what was involved in moving over to using it. The New Stack Building a Network for Scale, Flexibility and Performance When the Incapsula network mitigated a 650 Gbps DDoS flood last year, its CPU was unaffected by the attack. Here’s how the engineering team rebuilt the mitigation platform. Imperva Incapsula   sponsored  Amazon Macie: Machine-Learning Powered Security for S3   tools  A security service that uses machine learning to automatically discover, classify, and protect sensitive data in AWS. Amazon Web Services Manas: Pinterest's High Performing Customized Search System   story  How Pinterest’s search system finds the most relevant results among +100 billion ‘pins’. Zheng Liu Using the Paint Timing API in Chrome   tutorial  The Paint Timing API landed in Chrome 60 and allows us to gather paint timing metrics from end users. Jeremy Wagner The World in Which IPv6 Was A Good Design   story  Why is IPv6 such a complicated mess compared to IPv4? Here’s some history. apenwarr On The (Perceived) Value of EV Certs and Commercial CAs   opinion  A discussion and analysis of security and phishing issues related to the popularity of the free Let’s Encrypt, how trust and privacy are different things, and where EV certificates stand. Troy Hunt Jobs Senior Backend Engineer at Stash (New York City) We're looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer with a passion for building reliable, scalable, and performant software. Stash Take Your Career To The Next Level. Get Access to the Best Jobs on Hired Save time on your job search. Hired delivers multiple, high-quality job offers to you. Sign up today. Hired In brief Google and CodeFresh Collaborate to Make Kubernetes More Accessible   news  Michelle Gienow Amazon Jumps On Kubernetes Bandwagon   news  AWS is joining the Kubernetes DevOps group, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, as a platinum member. ZDNet Running MongoDB as a microservice with Docker and Kubernetes   tutorial  Containers are revolutionizing the entire software lifecycle from proofs of concept through development, test, deployment, and support. MONGODB   sponsored  Strip Down Apache to Improve Performance and Memory Efficiency   tutorial  Stripping out unused modules can have a surprising effect. Hayden James Real-Time MySQL Performance Monitoring   tutorial  Using MySQL monitoring tool Monyog to measure key metrics. Rob Gravelle Evolution of the Heroku CLI: 2008-2017   story  The Heroku command line interface started off, like many things do, in Ruby. Heroku Why Morningstar Moved to the Cloud: 97% Cost Reduction   story  High Scalability Migrating 1200 Databases From MySQL to Postgres   story  Gabriel Garrido Calvo Changing 100M URLs and Living to Tell The Tale   story  Changing URLs used by millions of users isn’t the easiest task. Wix Engineering AWS Infrastructure Setup: The CleverTap Way   story  A brief case-study on CleverTap’s evolving AWS environment. Francis Pereira When You See API Rate Limiting as Security   opinion  API services and API security have come a long way, but Kin Lane argues that organizations still take too narrow a view of their APIs. Kin Lane RAM is the New Disk   opinion  Nikhil Garg 3 minutes is all you need to get started with Codeship Basic   tools  Get set up with our hosted Continuous Integration Platform in under 3 minutes. Join thousands of customers like InvisionApp & Whole Foods. Codeship   sponsored  poormanscdn: An Amazon S3 Caching Proxy Built in Go   tools  Alexandre Salle Scotty.js: Deploy Static Websites to AWS S3 with a Single Command   tools  Slobodan Stojanovic Heptio Sonobuoy: A Diagnostic Tool That Makes It Easier to Understand The State of A Kubernetes Cluster   tools  Heptio 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