#133: Optimizing Web Servers for High Throughput and Low Latency

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Issue 133 — September 13, 2017

NGINX Unit: A New Open Source Application Server   news  Currently in beta and supporting Go, PHP and Python, Unit is a lightweight app server designed for demanding dynamic/distributed apps. NGINX Why You Should Have a CAA DNS Record for Your HTTPS Site   news  All certificate authorities now have to honor a Domain Name System record that allows HTTPS website owners to restrict who can issue SSL certificates for their domain names. Lucian Constantin 10 Ways to make your AWS more secure Improve the security of your infrastructure by following these ten security best practices for your AWS infra. Learn how to enforce security settings, rotate your AWS keys, use a private VPC, enable CloudTrail and more. Sqreen   sponsored  Optimizing Web Servers for High Throughput and Low Latency   story  An engineer at Dropbox goes into depth on the efficiency/performance optimizations of different layers of their stack. Alexey Ivanov 7 Helpful HTTP Tools Worth Knowing About   tools  A review of some HTTP CLIs & GUI clients like cURL, http-console, HTTPpie, and http-prompt. Kristopher Sandoval How to Hurricane-Proof a Web Server   story  A look at a configuration that enabled Space City Weather to weather Hurricane Harvey. Important things to consider as weather becomes more dramatic. Lee Hutchinson A Look at Amazon's New 'Network Load Balancer'   news  It’s designed to handle tens of millions of requests per second while maintaining high throughput at ultra low latency. Jeff Barr 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 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 Chrome’s Plan to Distrust Symantec Certificates   news  Google Security Researchers Lose Faith in HTTP Public Key Pinning   news  Lucian Constantin JAX London Conference: Join The World's Java Masterminds (9-12 Oct)   news  A conference for software engineers and enterprise-level professionals. JAX brings together leading innovators in the fields of Java, Microservices, Continuous Delivery and DevOps. JAX London New German Google Cloud Platform Region Now Open   news  The new German region, europe-west3, joins europe-west1 in Belgium, offering another location in continental Europe. Dave Stiver and Michael Korbacher Connect Your Git Repository to AWS S3 and AWS Services Using Webhooks and New Quick Start   tutorial  Amazon Web Services, Inc.​ A Developer's Introduction to Geotraffic   tutorial  Kellen Evan Person A Step-By-Step Guide to Running An Open Source OAuth2 Server   tutorial  Ory Monitoring Your Async Python Web Apps Using Prometheus   tutorial  Amit Saha Deploy A Global, Private CDN Using Edgemesh Supernodes   tutorial  Jacob Loveless How report-uri.io Improves Performance and Security How report-uri.io analyzed massive volumes of traffic to keep its violation reporting service available. Imperva Incapsula   sponsored  Why Is Serverless Extensibility Better Than Webhooks?   story  A good look at an alternative to webhooks. Auth0 Moving Our Trading Engine to AWS   story  Sky Gaming From Monolith to Microservices: One Company's Plan   story  Jennifer Riggins The Search for Better Search at Reddit   story  How Reddit has moved from Postgres, to Lucene, Solr, and now Lucidworks Fusion. Reddit What Networking Concept Did You Struggle With When Learning?   opinion  A Reddit discussion that might make you feel better. Reddit Site Reliability Engineering is a Kind of Magic   opinion  Peter Waterhouse AWS vs Azure vs Google Cloud: Mapping Cloud Solutions Among Leading Providers   opinion  Here is a mapping of Amazon’s offerings compared to those from Microsoft and Google. Richard Robbins Scaling Your Org with Microservices   slidedeck  Helpful information and advice on operating microservices. Bridget Kromhout and Charity Majors 10 Ways to Get Your Boss to Buy You Something Get your boss to buy you things... and look good in the process. A guide to advocating for products effectively. VividCortex   sponsored  hkpg: Automated Archiving of Heroku Postgres Backups to S3   code  Simon Taranto Takeoff: A Rapid Development Environment Designed for Hack Days   code  Oriented around Hapi, React, React Router v4, Redux, Postgres, and NGINX. GitHub repo. Tane Piper 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