Issue 111 — April 12, 2017
Are REST-ish APIs ‘good enough’ for now? This provoked some Hacker News discussion.
Brandur Leach
Craig Peterson from Stack Exchange explains why they built DNSControl, a declarative DNS management system that syncs across multiple providers.
Stack Exchange
Server push is a defining feature of HTTP/2, but how does it work? How is it used, and how does it help performance?
Jeremy Wagner
Set sophisticated alerts on app performance. Correlate with metrics from load balancers, databases, and more.
Datadog   sponsored 
A lossless compression algorithm that yielded 20% reductions in static assets for Dropbox.
Dropbox Tech Blog
If you build on top of Twitter, things may be getting more exciting with new APIs and paid options coming later this year.
Twitter
Currently Cloudflare’s DNS service answers around 1 million queries per second – not including attack traffic – via a global anycast network.
Cloudflare
Twitter Lite is a new progressive web app (PWA) available on mobile.twitter.com. Nicolas Gallagher explains the stack behind it.
Twitter Engineering
The core concepts of Amazon’s Virtual Private Clouds (VPC) thoroughly explained.
J Cole Morrison
In brief
Deis builds open source tools for creating and managing Kubernetes-based applications.
Microsoft
Hacker News
A lock of knowledge and mature tooling can cause security issues with IPv6.
Juha Saarinen
NGINX
DigitalOcean
React eschews the traditional MVC architecture, a counter-intuitive approach Brian explains along with JSX, React best practices, and the React component lifecycle.
Forward Courses   sponsored 
Roman Gaponov
It’s possible to use emojis in domain names, but.. it’s complicated.
DNAcademy
Tom Yates
High Scalability
Lex Neva
John McKim
Stewart McGrath
Get started with a free, hosted replica set. No credit card needed!
MONGODB   sponsored 
Google Developers
A tool that allows you to monitor website performance over time.
Josh Habdas
Gravitational
A compute platform for processing streams.
NStack
Written in Python.
github.​com