#130: Going Multi-Cloud with AWS and GCP - Lessons Learned at Scale

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Issue 130 — August 23, 2017

Up: A Rapid Way to Deploy Serverless Apps and APIs   tools  “The long-term goal is to provide a ‘Bring your own Heroku’ of sorts, supporting many platforms.” TJ Holowaychuk Going Multi-Cloud with AWS and GCP: Lessons Learned at Scale   story  A company handling a petabyte of data per week needed the ability to failover gracefully, detect and eliminate brownouts, and efficiently operate huge amounts of computer power. Charles Allen A WebOps Postmortem   story  How a Production Engineering team for an Australian news site dealt with a widespread server timeout incident. Ryan Armstrong Monitor end-to-end application performance Datadog APM traces real requests in detailed flame graphs so you can monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize the performance of all your apps and services. Datadog   sponsored  An Overview of the Logging Ecosystem in 2017   news  What trends, tools, and philosophies currently hold sway in the logging ecosystem, and why? Let’s get a gauge of where the industry stands in mid-2017. Matthew Setter Creating Your Own Serverless Raspberry Pi Cluster with Docker   tutorial  Learn how to deploy Docker Swarm to create a Raspberry Pi cluster then turn it into a serverless super-computer with the OpenFaaS framework for Docker. Alex Ellis How GitHub Uses Kubernetes   story  The story behind how GitHub has scaled, how they evaluated Kubernetes, and what was involved in moving over to using it (a more in-depth update to a story we included last week). GitHub Heroku Makes 'Webhooks' Generally Available   news  A new Heroku feature for creating webhooks based around numerous events relating to your Heroku-hosted apps. Heroku 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 Relax and Let Job Offers Come to You. Sign Up Today on Hired Save time on your job search. Hired delivers multiple, high-quality job offers to you. Sign up today. Hired In brief Node.js Has Been Forked Into 'Ayo'   news  There have been conduct concerns over a prolific Node contributor. Rudolf Olah Xen Hypervisor Patched for Privilege Escalation and Data Leak Flaws   news  5 new vulnerabilities were found in the popular hypervisor. The New Stack Running MongoDB as a microservice with Docker and Kubernetes Containers are revolutionizing the entire software lifecycle from proofs of concept through development, test, deployment, and support. MONGODB   sponsored  How to Build a Scalable, Serverless Crawler   tutorial  Marcello Lins Go vs .NET Core in Terms of HTTP Performance   tutorial  Gerasimos Maropoulos Running WordPress in a Kubernetes Cluster   tutorial  Gilbert Pellegrom Docker Cheat Sheet: Lots of Docker One-Liners   tutorial  Aymen El Amri Using Kubernetes for Local Development with Minikube   tutorial  Aymen El Amri AWS Lambda Deployment using Terraform   tutorial  A look at using Terraform to improve productivity with AWS Lambda. Payam Moghaddam Designing a Microservices Architecture for Failure   tutorial  Péter Márton Creating an AWS EC2 Autoscaling Group   tutorial  Azat Mardan How to Analyze Fastly Real-Time Streaming Logs with BigQuery   tutorial  Google Cloud Platform Blog State of Production Database Performance 2017 In this report we explore and definitively answer whether MySQL or PostgreSQL is truly faster than the other. VividCortex   sponsored  Dealing with IPv6 Fragmentation in the DNS   story  Is IPv6 fragmentation a fixable problem in the DNS, and if so, how? Geoff Huston Visualizing the Digital Eclipse: Analyzing the Eclipse's Impact on Net Traffic   story  Jim Meehan Kubic: A Community-Driven Container-as-a-Service Platform   tools  A ‘Container as a Service’ Platform based on openSUSE and Kubernetes. Swapnil Bhartiya Cloudprober: Active Monitoring Software for Your Infrastructure   code  GCP is supported out-of-the-box; other Cloud providers can be added easily. Google wuzz: An Interactive CLI Tool for HTTP Inspection   code  Adam Tauber Rendertron: A Dockerized, Headless Chrome Rendering Solution   code  Google Chrome Team 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