#153: Why Should You Care About Kubernetes, Docker, and Container Orchestration?

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Issue 153 — February 14, 2018

Postmortem of a Service Outage at 3.4M Concurrent Users   news  The studio behind Fortnite, a popular online game, shares technical details about the challenges of rapidly scaling a game and its online services far beyond their growth expectations. Epic Games Nuster: A Web Caching Proxy Server Based on HAProxy   code  Essentially it’s HAProxy but with more features around dynamic caching. It benches at around 4x faster than Squid too. Jiang Wen Yuan Effective Testing for Live Applications Learn how to identify, test, and minimize test cases so you are better prepared to provide information to your support team (or just to have it handy on your test server). Percona   sponsored  Replacing EC2 On-Demand Instances with New Spot Instances   tutorial  Spot instances have become a lot better lately with less price volatility, automatic bid management, and 2 minute warnings prior to shutdowns, so could they replace more of your key EC2 instances? Eric Hammond Why Should You Care About Kubernetes, Docker, and Container Orchestration?   opinion  If Kubernetes, Docker and ‘orchestration’ remain buzzwords to you or members of your team, these thoughts from Scott Hanselman could help flesh out their relevance. Scott Hanselman A Practical Example of using NGINX HTTP2 Server Push   tutorial  NGINX added support for HTTP2 ‘server push’ - here’s an example of working with it from Go. Ciro S.​ Costa Serverless: State of The Union   video  Technical Evangelism Lead at AWS, Ian Massingham shares his thoughts on the current state of serverless. Related slidedeck. AWS DevDays Nordics Containers Will Not Fix Your Broken Culture   opinion  “the solutions to many difficulties that seem technical can be found by examining our interactions with others.” Bridget Kromhout (Microsoft) Jobs Site Reliability Engineer with Security Focus (Berlin, Germany) You'll play a key role building and designing our base infrastructure and help our development team to build a great product. Coya WebOps Jobs at 4,000+ Companies Try Vettery to start getting tech job offers delivered right to your inbox. Vettery In brief HTTP/2 Server Push Support Pushed to NGINX   news  NGINX Chrome 68 to Mark All HTTP Sites as 'Not Secure'   news  Google Oracle Promises Self-Securing, Self-Repairing Autonomous Cloud Services   news  The New Stack Datadog Has Been Added as an Optional Endpoint for MongoDB Atlas Alerts MONGODB   sponsored  GraphQL as an API Gateway to Microservices   tutorial  Everett Griffiths How I Deployed a Julia Webapp using Genie Framework with Docker   tutorial  Julia is a programming language for numerical computing. Anirudh M How to Use Vagrant for Ansible Role Testing and Development   tutorial  Molecule is another helpful tool for testing Ansible roles. Christian Stein $20 Free On A New Linode Account Linux cloud hosting starting at 1GB of RAM for $5/mo. Get $20 credit on a new account. Linode Cloud Hosting   sponsored  Building Your Own CDN for Fun and Profit   story  Janos Pasztor Running a 400+ Node Elasticsearch Cluster   story  Anton Hägerstrand The History of the Service Mesh   story  William Morgan Lying to TCP Could Make It a Best-Effort Streaming Protocol   story  Tony Garnock-Jones Using Google Analytics for Data Extraction   story  An interesting approach to bypassing Content Security Policy. Linus Särud Running a Modern Infrastructure on Kubernetes   story  Pradeep Chhetri Defining the Perimeter in a Microservices World   opinion  Twain Taylor Continuous Delivery with GoCD on Chef GoCD   sponsored  Molecule: A Tool to Help Test Ansible Roles   tools  John Dewey 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