Google’s Paul Irish takes an interesting dive into the performance characteristics of the new mobile Reddit site and works out why images are taking up to 45 seconds to load. A great look into how a performance professional analyzes a Web performance problem.

An engineer needed to build a system that could handle a heavy load (telemetry data POSTed from millions of endpoints). Here’s his story of how he iterated on a solution using Go.

An academic paper that attempts to shed some light on the latency, infrastructure, data, and energy costs of HTTPS vs HTTP.

Deis is an open source self service platform that makes it easy to deploy and manage applications on your own servers. Deis builds upon Docker and CoreOs to provide a lightweight PaaS with a flexible workflow. Learn more about Deis.

An extensive discussion on Hacker News about the value that Docker provides and where its container-based approach fits into the busy world of virtualization.

A variety of maxims, ideas, and insights into keeping users happy with what the author calls the ‘BOOM effect.’

A great (audio) interview with Google’s Ilya Grigorik on everything around HTTP/2 — the spec, history, SPDY, HTTP/2 semantics, pipelining, multiplexing, and more. One for your lunchbreak or commute.

Some interesting history given the game first came out in 1997.

Sam Dean presents a high level story and reflections on why Web users are still so tricky to track.