Issue 147 — December 20, 2017
Welcome

2017 is almost over and it's been a year packed with interesting ops stories, new tools, and advancements. In this issue, we're looking back at the most popular items and tools of the year, in case you missed any issues.

We're taking a break for Christmas, and will be back on January 10 with, fingers crossed, a new design :-) We hope you have a great holiday season!

- The WebOps Weekly team (Peter, Chris, and Za'e)
The Most Popular Links of 2017
Hagay Lupesko reviewed key security-related HTTP headers and demonstrated their use in mitigating security vulnerabilities and attacks.
Smashing Magazine
And along very similar lines..
Appcanary
See how the exact same real world blogging platform is built using React or Angular on top of Node, Rails, and Django. Introductory blog post.
Thinkster
When Peter Klimek’s app suffered poor loading times, he came up with a solution to reduce latency.
Imperva Incapsula   sponsored 
Are REST-ish APIs ‘good enough’ for now? This provoked some Hacker News discussion and is a topic that we suspect will become more significant in 2018.
Brandur Leach
Daniel Ellis, an engineer at Reddit, shares a lot of details about how Reddit’s caching infrastructure works. It’s great to see real world details of this nature.
Reddit
The challenges Twitter has had to overcome in order to scale some of their key services.
Mazdak Hashemi
Event data infrastructure diagrams from several companies well known for their rapid growth.
Michelle Wetzler
Linux cloud hosting starting at 1GB of RAM for $5/mo. Get $20 credit on a new account.
Linode Cloud Hosting   sponsored 
Outsourcing infrastructure is so easy and instant now, it’s easy to run up huge monthly bills when scaling. Here’s how one startup scaled its AWS costs down $1M per year.
Segment
Amazon Web Services is seeing five predominant usage patterns for its Lambda serverless service, according to a recent presentation.
The New Stack
Chopping a monolith up into microservices is increasingly common, but this article explores an alternative which promises less operational complexity: modular app development.
Sander Mak
Tools
Flashback is designed to mock HTTP and HTTPS resources, like web services and REST APIs, for testing purposes.
LinkedIn Engineering
An NGINX Config for 2017  
With HTTP/2 in every browser, load balancing with automatic failover, IPv6, a sorry page, separate blog server (using proxying), HTML5 SSE and an A+ SSL Labs rating.
Mike MacCana
A simple easy to customize Bash script to generate a static status page. Displays status of websites, services (HTTP, SAP, MySQL…) and ping.
Nils Knieling
Read the guide or try 3.6 right away.
mongodb   sponsored 
A set of mocked AWS services (S3, API Gateway, Lambda, and more) for testing your cloud apps locally.
Atlassian
“the simplest and safest way to test your app using real traffic before you put it into production”
Leonid Bugaev
Potentially useful for local development where SSL support is required (e.g. ServiceWorker development). The private key is included for signing.
Tobias Salzmann
Essentially an email delivery platform you can run on your own servers.
aTech Media
Randall Degges
Chang-Hung Liang
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