Web Design: A Modern Introduction to DNS

Wednesday, April 4, 2018

A Modern Introduction to DNS

#160 — April 4, 2018

How ipdata Serves a Million Daily API Calls from 10 Scalable Endpoints — One of those 'this is our stack'-type case studies we all love, this time focusing on ipdata, an IP geolocation API that uses a variety of AWS services to scale around the globe relatively cheaply.

Jonathan Kosgei

A Modern (Re)Introduction to DNS — An attempt to provide a concise, modern, 'correct introduction' to DNS and related concepts. Pretty technical, but all worth knowing. "The goal is to be a mini "TCP/IP Illustrated" of DNS."

Bert Hubert

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1.1.1.1: A New, Fast, Privacy-First DNS Service — Cloudflare and APNIC have teamed up to provide a new, globally distributed consumer DNS service that's topping most initial benchmarks.

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Announcing the New HTTP Archive — The HTTP Archive, a site that tracks 'how the web is built' has graduated numerous features from beta to final release including these handy reports that look at loading speeds, JavaScript use, page weight, and more.

HTTP Archive

Introducing Network Error Logging — Server logs are useful, but what if you could request logs from clients? It turns out the W3C's Web Performance Working Group are working on an approach called Network Error Logging.

Douglas Creager

6 Creative Ways to Solve Problems with Linux Containers and Docker — An outside-the-box exploration of how containers can be used to provide novel solutions.

Sean Kane

Node.js 8.10 Runtime Now Available on AWS Lambda — You can now develop AWS Lambda serverless functions on top of the Node 8.10 runtime which makes numerous modern JS syntax and performance features available.

Amazon Web Services

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Updating the NGINX Application Platform — NGINX explains what's coming next for their platform, including NGINX Plus R15, Unit 1.0 (their dynamic app server), and Controller R1 (their management and monitoring tool).

NGINX, Inc.

Amazon ECS Now Includes Integrated Service Discovery

Randall Hunt

Google Winding Down Its URL Shortening Service (goo.gl)

Andrew Liptak

Looking Back at 10 Years of Compartmentalization at AWS

Werner Vogels

Using AWS Lambdas for Data Lake Monitoring — How the UK's largest used car marketplace uses serverless functions for maintaining its KPI dashboards.

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📘 Tutorials

Everything You Need to Know About the Twelve-Factor App

Randall Degges

Running Distributed Erlang and Elixir Apps on Docker

Oleg Tarasenko

What is a Service Mesh? — The first in a series covering configurable infrastructure layers for microservice-based apps.

Floyd Smith (NGINX)

Executing Commands in Pods using Kubernetes' API

Marek Jelen