#135: How To Serve Over 1 Trillion HTTP Reqs Per Month

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Issue 135 — September 27, 2017

HAProxy vs NGINX for Load Balancing   opinion  The author argues you should never use NGINX for load balancing because of a lack of detailed status/monitoring info out of the box. The HFT Guy How Adcash Serves Over 1 Trillion HTTP Reqs Per Month   story  If you like a look into high traffic stacks, this case study looking over an advertising platform’s system is worth a look. High Scalability Web Performance in The Real World: How to Make Fast Sites   video  An exploration of work the Microsoft Edge team does to help developers build faster sites, and how to think of performance as an investigative activity, beyond a checklist approach. Nolan Lawson Debug app errors and slowdowns with Datadog APM Trace real requests from end to end, across service boundaries, to quickly identify the source of errors or performance bottlenecks. Datadog   sponsored  Sysdig Inspect: A Container Troubleshooting and Security Investigation Tool   tools  An interface for exploring the output of sysdig, a system visibility tool with native support for containers. Sysdig Cloudflare's 'Unmetered Mitigation' Policy for DDoS Attacks   news  Cloudflare makes a bold promise saying they will “no longer terminate customers, regardless of the size of the DDoS attacks they receive…” Cloudflare Evolution of Data Structures In Yandex.Metrica   story  How Yandex’s Metrica web analytics service modified their approach to storage, hardware utilization, and efficiency in response to huge growth. High Scalability Jobs DevOps engineer for a distributed messaging platform We’re solving truly complex distributed problems with significant infrastructure scale. If you enjoy challenging your grey matter, apply. Ably realtime Get Your Next Tech Job Faster. Get Hired on Hired. Save time on your job search. Hired delivers multiple, high-quality job offers to you. Sign up today. Hired In brief Google Cloud Announces IPv6 Global Load Balancing GA   news  Google AWS Pinpoint Launches Two-Way Text Messaging   news  Two-way programmatic text messaging is now possible on AWS. Amazon Web Services Google Cloud Extends Per Second Billing Support   news  More Google services get per-second billing, though with a one minute minimum. Google Google Cloud Acquires Cloud Identity Management Company Bitium   news  TechCrunch An AWS Region in the Middle East (Bahrain) Due By 2019   news  Jeff Barr Announcing a Public Preview of PowerShell in Azure Cloud Shell   news  Microsoft A Beginner’s Guide to the Docker File Learn how to work with a Dockerfile and which commands you can run, how to create a Dockerfile and pushing images to the Docker Hub. Codeship   sponsored  Getting Started With Prometheus and CrateDB for Long-Term Storage   tutorial  Prometheus is a monitoring and alerting tool and CrateDB is well suited for storing huge amounts of monitoring data. Naomi Slater Code Evaluation with AWS Lambda and API Gateway   tutorial  Michael Herman Build A Web Service with F# and .NET Core 2.0   tutorial  F# is a pretty awesome multi-paradigm language. Phillip Carter Getting Started with Building Realtime API Infrastructure   tutorial  Justin Baker Practical Scalability Analysis with the Universal Scalability Law The Universal Scalability Law models how systems perform as they grow. This ebook shows how to best use it. VividCortex   sponsored  How the Internet Kept Humming During 2 Hurricanes   story  While millions lost electricity across Florida, data centers largely held firm. James Glanz How Event-Driven Architecture is the Wave of the Future   opinion  TC Currie The 80/20 Rule Points to Real Benefits from Containers in Production   opinion  Mark Thiele 23 Videos from DevOpsDays Chicago 2017   video  YouTube The Evolution of Windows Server: What's New in The Latest Release   video  Microsoft Mechanics Monitoring Cloudflare's Planet-Scale Edge Network with Prometheus [PDF] How Cloudflare use Prometheus for monitoring/alerts/metrics on a global-scale edge network. Matt Bostock nginx-module-vts: NGINX Virtual Host Traffic Status Module   tools  Kim YoungJoo k8s-sql: A Storage Backend for Kubernetes using Go's database/sql   code  github.​com 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