Issue 97 — January 4, 2017
Russia’s largest free email service wanted to cut costs. This is the in-depth tale of how they freed up 18 petabytes of space with deduplication.
High Scalability
A distributed, scalable, durable, and highly available message queue system built at Uber to transport asynchronous tasks. It’s built in Go.
Uber
Thoughts on DDoS attacks, QUIC, IPv6, mobile traffic, and DNS security.
John Graham-Cumming
Is sFTP the best protocol for transferring HTTP headers?
Imperva Incapsula   sponsored 
Speed Index is a key web performance metric based around page rendering times. Joseph Gannon takes a closer look at working with it.
Joseph Gannon
Somehow we missed this enjoyable explanation and analysis from a month ago :-)
Simon Wardley
A DNS record type that indicates to certificate authorities if they should issue certificates for a domain.
DNSimple
Cloudflare suffered an interesting outage on New Year’s Day following the passing of a leap second added to 2016.
Cloudflare
How to use HTTP2 Server Push along with progressive JPEG scan layers to maximize rendering performance for key images.
Tobias Baldauf
A simple proxy that strips away CSS — a good way to check how your site will behave if styles fail to load.
Daniel McLaughlin and Eric Bailey
Jobs
We're profitable, growing rapidly, and future-proofing with a ground-up build of our long-term infrastructure using microservices hosted on AWS/Terraform/ECS/Docker. Be a founding member.
Healthline.​com
In brief
InfoQ
Jenkins
Your free trial unlocks access to 28 in-depth workshops on React, Redux, Node, FE DevOps and Async programming
Forward Courses   sponsored 
Kief Morris
Docker Pirates
A transport layer protocol that draws on both TCP and UDP.
Anmol Sarma
Russ Mckendrick
The New Stack
A fascinating (and long) story from the Internet of the 1990s.
MinnPost
Managing databases in today's environments presents many complex problems. See the impact in this 2016 survey.
VividCortex   sponsored 
Gojko Adzic
C3TV
It’s basically a 45 foot long shipping container.
Amazon Web Services, Inc.​
Google
Michael Jackson
Matt Adorjan
Máximo Cuadros
Dan Vittegleo