Notes cribbed from a talk by Uber’s Chief Systems Architect, Matt Ranney. Uber are using a lot of technologies under the hood including Node, Python, Java and Go.

CloudSploit is an AWS security scanning service that has worked itself entirely around the Lambda paradigm and in doing so can now rapidly scale to hundreds of requests per second.

Or “What 12 CDN Experts Love and Hate About CDNs”, including some solutions to the issues they raise.

Check out the new Spring Boot + Stormpath guide to build a modern application complete with user registration, authentication and single sign-on. Better yet, deploy to Heroku and go live in twenty minutes.

“This is my view, based on experiences at Google, for a stack that delivers what I’d want for a major production system.”

A look at DistributedLog, Twitter’s high-performance replicated log service, and how it’s used.

Neocities, a sort of 21st century reincarnation of GeoCities, has become the first major site to implement IPFS in production. What’s IFPS? A distributed file system that seeks to share the same file set amongst all participants.

32 different experts covering both technical and marketing sides of the e-commerce world share common performance mistakes they see on e-commerce sites, and the potential solutions.

Billing itself as ‘the HTTP TTY’, htty provides a convenient way to explore web APIs and learn the ins and outs of HTTP.