How BuzzFeed migrated from a Perl monolith

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news

#173 — July 4, 2018 Read on the Web Web Operations Weekly GoAccess: A Visual, Real-Time Web Log Analyzer — An open source log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in the terminal or through the browser. Supports logs from Apache, Nginx, Amazon S3, Elastic Load Balancing, CloudFront, etc. Gerardo O. A One Size Fits All Database Doesn't Fit Anyone — Amazon's CTO is often asked why AWS offers so many different database products. Here, he explains why, and explains his conviction that using multiple databases within an app is a good move. Werner Vogels The Revolutionary Project Management Tool Is Here and It's Visual — monday.com is a visual tool your team will actually enjoy using. It makes it fun and easy for everyone to collaborate, focus on what's important, and get more done. A project management tool that'll help you and your team collaborate and achieve more. monday.com sponsor How BuzzFeed Migrated from a Perl Monolith to Go & Python — BuzzFeed have recently migrated from a monolithic Perl application to a set of around 500 microservices written in a mixture of Python and Go. Charles Humble (InfoQ) Bare Metal Kubernetes Clustering at Chick-fil-A Scale — The American chicken restaurant will be running Kubernetes at the edge in its 2000 restaurants. Sadly the answer to "why are you doing this?" is to follow in a future post. Brian Chambers, Caleb Hurd and Alex Crane (Chick-fil-A) Spiral: How Facebook's Services Use Machine Learning to Self-Tune — Spiral is a system for self-tuning high-performance infrastructure services at Facebook scale, using real-time machine learning techniques. Facebook AWS Lambda Adds SQS to Supported Event Sources — AWS's serverless platform Lambda now supports SQS (Simple Queue Service) triggers to invoke serverless functions, and you can use this to turn the Simple Queue Service into a true message broker. Or prefer full docs and a tutorial? Randall Hunt 💻 Jobs DevOps Engineer at X-Team (Remote) — We help our developers keep learning and growing every day. Unleash your potential. Work from anywhere. Join X-Team. x-team Find A Job Through Vettery — Vettery matches top tech talent with fast-growing companies. Create your profile to get started. Vettery 📘 Tutorials & Opinion Optimize Website Speed with Chrome's DevTools   — How to use Chrome DevTools to find ways to make your sites load faster. Kayce Basques Delivering a Serverless API in 10 Minutes with Cloudflare Workers Rita Kozlov (Cloudflare) Take Our 5-Min Survey & Win a Chance at a Lego Mindstorm ActiveState sponsor Setting up Monitoring and Alerting on Amazon AWS with Terraform Stephen Mann NGINX TLS/SSL HTTPS Tuning Tips Hayden James How to Use AWS Lambda to Clean Up Unused EBS Volumes — An interesting use of serverless to do housekeeping on existing resources and reduce infrastructure bills. Mohamed Labouardy An Introduction to Python Microservices with Nameko Guilherme Caminha How Facebook Migrated 'Messenger' Storage to Optimize Performance Xiang Li and Thomas Georgiou (Facebook) Migrating a 100K Request-per-Minute App from AWS Elastic Beanstalk to ECS Omer Hamerman What's The History Behind 192.168.1.1? Why Not Another Address? Phillip Remaker on Quora 🔧 Tools Kubernetes 1.11 Released — Go behind the scenes with this podcast interview with Josh Berkus and Tim Pepper. Kubernetes lightproxy: An Easy Way to Use Local Domains for Development — lightproxy lets you map hostnames to a local port. You can also point a hostname to a folder and serves file directly out of the folder. Goat Blog Manifold Is the Marketplace for Independent Developer Services Manifold sponsor JVM Profiler: A Tool for Tracing Distributed JVM Apps at Scale — Uber has open sourced its distributed JVM profiler. Uber Static Website Hosting for Azure Storage Now in Public Preview Michael Hauss Ansible 2.6 Released Dylan Silva mkcert: A Tool to Make Locally-Trusted Development Certificates Filippo Valsorda http-live-simulator: A Simple HTTP Server That Serves with a Random Delay for a 'Live' Feel Prahlad Yeri Nanny: A Monitoring Tool That Monitors The Absence of Action Lukáš Němec

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Layoutit: A CSS Grid layout builder

This Week's HTML5, CSS, Browser, and Frontend News

#347 — July 4, 2018 Read on the Web Frontend Focus Layoutit: A CSS Grid Layout Interface Builder — A very quick online way to put together a CSS grid layout and get the code needed to make it happen. We saw this getting some love on Twitter and were impressed with it ourselves. Leniolabs An Introduction to Feature Policy — We linked to the spec last week, but this introduction to Feature Policy, a feature that lets developers selectively enable, disable, and modify the behavior of certain APIs and features in the browser, is a much better introduction :-) Eric Bidelman New Course: 💯 Complete Intro to Web Development, v2 — More than an introductory course, this is a totally revamped, modern intro course where you'll go from building your first website to having the foundations for becoming a professional web developer. Frontend Masters sponsor CSS Grid Level 2: Here Comes Subgrid — CSS Grid Level 2's headline feature is support for subgrids (the idea that nested grids can take their parent grids into account). In this article, Rachel Andrew explains what's new and how it will work once it's fully specced. Rachel Andrew Designing for Accessibility Is Not That Hard — Seven easy-to-implement guidelines to design a more accessible web. Very cute animations, too. Pablo Stanley 'I Used The Web For A Day With Just A Keyboard' — Many of us are taught to make sure our sites can be used via keyboard. Why is that, and what is it like in practice? Plenty of frontend tips in this tale. Chris Ashton Pixels vs. Ems: Users Do Change Font Size — The Internet Archive ran an experiment to see how many users browse with a non-default font size - 3.08% is their finding. Evan Minto 💻 Jobs Frontend Developer at X-Team (Remote) — We help our developers keep learning and growing every day. Unleash your potential. Work from anywhere. Join X-Team. x-team Find A Job Through Vettery — Vettery matches top tech talent with fast-growing companies. Create your profile to get started. Vettery 📢 In Brief What Is The CSS 'ch' Unit? — "despite what the letters ch might imply, ch units are not 'character' units" Eric A. Meyer Optimize Website Speed with Chrome's DevTools   — How to use Chrome DevTools to find ways to make your sites load faster. Kayce Basques Content Needs a Publication Date — .. and here's a semantically ideal way to mark it up. Bruce Lawson CSS Grid in IE: Debunking Common IE Grid Misconceptions — The first in a series on how to use CSS grid in a way that not only works in modern browsers but also IE11. Daniel Tonon On the Inaccessibility of CAPTCHAs — A popular document from 2005 on the Web accessibility problems and solutions around common CAPTCHA techniques has been revised and brought up to date. W3C How to Do Functional Programming with JavaScript? Progress Kendo UI sponsor The Quirks of CSS Grid and Absolute Positioning — It's possible to use CSS positioning on grid items, but there are some quirks to be aware of.. Ian Yates How CSS Works: Creating Layers with 'z-index' — Under the hood, z-index isn't as complex as it can seem at first. Benjamin Johnson Ways to Fit Text to a Container — Chris Coyier runs through a few of the ways in which you can go about putting some text in a container and having it size itself to fill that container. CSS Tricks A Guide to Node.js for Frontend Developers — If you do end up getting into Node.js, we have a Node newsletter too :-) Seva Zaikov Creating Simple 'Color-Coding' Dots in CSS Mohamed Akram Docz: A Modern Documentation Site Publishing System — Zero-config, powered by Webpack 4 and a Markdown + JSX templating format. Pedro Nauck

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PostgreSQL 11 Beta 2 Released

The latest Postgres news, articles, tools, and projects.

#263 — July 4, 2018 Read on the Web Postgres Weekly PostgreSQL 11 Beta 2 Released — In related news, the HEAD of Postgres's git repository is now for Postgres 12, so there will be no further new features for PG 11. PostgreSQL Global Development Group PostgreSQL Tuning: Key Things to Drive Performance — Several high-level tips for getting the most performance out of your Postgres setup. Viorel Tabara Because Your Data Is Your Business — PGX's open source experts provide the database and application skills necessary to solve database problems, accelerate existing applications, refactor infrastructure, and develop new applications. PostgreSQL Experts, Inc. sponsor Postgres Concurrency: Isolation and Locking — A brief primer on Postgres's isolation and locking properties and behaviors. Dimitri Fontaine pgquarrel 0.4: The Postgres Schema Comparison Tool — Given two database connections, it'll output data representing the difference between schemas. The main use case is to deploy database changes into testing, staging or production environments. Euler Taveira Rules vs Trigger Performance When Logging Bulk Updates — Rules let you define an alternate action to be performed on table inserts, updates, or deletions, and can work as an alternative to triggers in some situations. Laurenz Albe Options for Scaling From 1 to 100,000 Tenants — If you're building a multi-tenant SaaS app and you plan for your business to grow, you're going to face the question of how to scale your database. This post covers the options, from proprietary to open source, relational to NoSQL, scale up to scale out. Craig Kerstiens The Diagnostic Tale of an Unexpected Slowdown — Digging into a performance issue with a Postgres database and how it was resolved. Julien Rouhaud Take Control of Your Postgres Databases in the Cloud EDB Managed DBaaS Service sponsor PostGIS 2.5 Beta 1 Released — The spatial and geographic object system for Postgres takes another step towards a final release - Postgres 11 beta 2 is recommended here. PostGIS Developers Events PGDay.Amsterdam — July 12 (Amsterdam, Netherlands) Meet & learn from other PostgreSQL users, developers and anyone who's interested in the most advanced open source database. PostgresOpen 2018 — September 5-7 (San Francisco, CA) PostgresOpen is happening again this year in San Francisco and the talk list is now live. Here's a breakdown of just a few of the interesting talks. Postgresql Conference Europe — October 23-26 2018 (Lisbon, Portugal) The 10th Annual PostgreSQL Conference Europe which will be held at the Lisbon Marriott Hotel.

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