Google's Best Practices for User Accounts and Authentiation

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Issue 152 — February 7, 2018

Welcome It's not often we launch a new newsletter so I'm excited to announce our newest one goes out tomorrow - it's called MongoDB Weekly. No prizes for guessing what it's about! You can see a preview issue here and if you like it, sign up to get the first non-preview issue tomorrow. Thanks! - Peter Cooper, editor 12 Best Practices for User Account, Auth and Password Management   opinion  A post laying out best practices to ensure you have a safe, scalable, usable account authentication system. Ian Maddox (Google) Building Scalable Microservices with gRPC   story  A technical look at why Bugsnag chose to implement gRPC in its data processing pipeline after reaching the limits of RESTful approaches. Ben Ibinson Upgrade Your Team with 2x Faster CI/CD Teams from Toyota and Uber are moving to Semaphore. Try it free today to find out why. Semaphore   sponsored  How to Make a Dynamic Website Static Through a Content CDN   tutorial  Leonardo Losoviz explains how you can have a WordPress site, complete with dynamic content, exported as static files. Smashing Magazine OpenCensus: Vendor-Neutral Metric Collection and Tracing   tools  An open source version of Google’s Census library that makes the collection and submission of app metrics and traces easier. There are libraries for Go, Java, C++, Python, and more. Google You Need SRE Skills to Thrive in a Serverless World   opinion  A discussion with Kelsey Hightower, a Developer Advocate for the Google Cloud Platform, covering serverless on Kubernetes with Kubeless. Forrest Brazeal An Intro to AWS Fargate: How to Build and Deploy a Webapp   tutorial  Fargate makes it easier to deploy containerized apps on AWS services. This tutorial shows how to use it to deploy a simple Python app. Abhishek Ray Telegram Unveils a 'Login Widget' for Websites   tools  Aims to offer a frictionless way to authorize users on your site and ask for permission to contact them using the popular Telegram messaging app. Telegram A Look at the State of Progressive Images and User Perception   tutorial  “We all want to load images fast on the web. Choosing the right image format, optimizing the quality and using responsive images are important tasks, but what can we do beyond that?” Smashing Magazine Jobs DevOps Engineer (AWS, Chef, and Rails) Join us, work remotely from North America, and help build software that matters. Our team is hiring. Aha! WebOps Jobs at 4,000+ Companies Try Vettery to start getting tech job offers delivered right to your inbox. Vettery In brief Spring Cloud GCP: Integrating the Java Framework with Google Cloud   news  Google Cloud Platform Kontena Joins the Open Container Initiative   news  Kontena Blog Cloud-Based CD/CD Platform Codeship Acquired by CloudBees   news  Moritz Plassnig Building a Full-Text Search App Using Docker and Elasticsearch   tutorial  A thorough tutorial bringing Node.js, Docker, and Elasticsearch together. Patrick Triest Automatic Visual Diffing of Web Pages with Puppeteer   tutorial  A quick tutorial on how to set up Puppeteer to automate taking screenshots of your project and comparing them. Monica Dinculescu Deploying EFF's Certbot on AWS Lambda   tutorial  An interesting way to automate TLS cert renewals. Arkadiy Tetelman How to Collect EC2 Metrics   tutorial  Learn how to query and collect key EC2 resource metrics and status checks. Maxim Brown Improve Cloud App Performance with CPU Optimized Droplets Deploy cloud apps faster and more efficiently with DigitalOcean. Try if for free with $100 credit. DigitalOcean   sponsored  16 Linux Server Monitoring Commands You Should Know   tutorial  Steven Vaughan-Nichols How and Why to Package Your Kubernetes Apps with Helm   tutorial  Alen Komljen How Pinterest Handles the Geo-Blocking of Media Content   story  Pinterest Engineering How Apache Kafka Inspired Salesforce's Platform Events Architecture   story  Alexey Syomichev Codeship Integrations: Using Third Party & Services with Codeship Codeship   sponsored  Building Advanced Serverless Applications with AWS Step Functions   video  Danilo Poccia Docker Who? By Acquiring CoreOS, Red Hat Aims to Be the Kubernetes Company   opinion  Scott M.​ Fulton III A Spectre and Meltdown Vulnerability/Mitigation Checker for Linux   tools  A simple shell script to see if your Linux installation is vulnerable. Stéphane Lesimple DNSCrypt-Proxy 2: A Flexible DNS Proxy, with Support for Encrypted DNS Protocols.   code  Frank Denis Continuous Delivery with GoCD on Chef GoCD   sponsored  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