Issue 151 — January 31, 2018
A technical overview of how popular password management service 1Password switched from AWS CloudFormation over to Terraform for the handling of their growing infrastructure.
Roustem Karimov
Most of Google’s Web traffic now uses QUIC as a faster transport layer protocol than TCP, and now a study of its performance has been conducted.
Arash Molavi Kakhki
What do web threats in 2017 mean for 2018?
Imperva   sponsored 
Acquiring CoreOS represents a serious further push by Red Hat into the worlds of Kubernetes and containers.
Red Hat
A dig into the tech stack behind Stream and the various data infrastructure, utilities, devops, and business tools they use.
StackShare
Red Hat likes to say, “Containers are Linux — Linux is Containers.” But what does that mean?
Daniel J Walsh
“If the tools you use with and for Kubernetes don’t enable automation, then you’re not truly taking advantage of the benefits of orchestration.”
Craig Martin
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In brief
Up to 25Gbps to S3 and certain types of EC2 instances.
Jeff Barr
Enjoy this newsletter and use MongoDB? We’ve got you covered :-)
Cooperpress
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Want a cluster up and running fast? Only the essential steps here.
Alex Ellis
A beautifully thorough walkthrough of what’s involved.
Peter Goldsborough
SitePoint
Dan Breslaw and Dima Bekerman
Michael Hausenblas
Ian Miell
Scale up, with on-demand agents. GoCD’s elastic agents gives you the flexibility and savings you need.
GoCD   sponsored 
A low single digit percentage effect..
Arianna Aondio
A new IP can mean GoogleBot throttles its crawls.
Sahana Bhat
Cloudflare
.. using the rushit micro-benchmarking tool.
Jakub Sitnicki
An engaging talk about IPv6 and why you should (or shouldn’t) use it with your containers.
Matt Palmer
Why you should stop using it to store session data.
Randall Degges
Timothy Prickett Morgan
Erik Dietrich
Linode Cloud Hosting   sponsored 
Darren Mulholland
portier.​github.​io
Including scheduled containers, software defined networking, and converged storage, all on commodity x86 servers.
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