Issue 46 — December 30, 2015
Welcome

A light issue this week due to the holiday season. We hope you had a great Christmas.

The world of deployment, HTTP services, servers, and microservices is only getting more interesting over time, so we're looking forward to a fascinating 2016. We can't do it without you, so thanks for reading, and if you're able to encourage anyone else to join us, we'd really appreciate it - thanks!

Peter Cooper,
Your humble editor
A high level look at the state of microservices today. How big is the hype and why are developers seemingly constantly talking about them lately?
Gabor Nagy
A look at how you can put a custom HAProxy instance in front of other Heroku apps to run multiple apps through a single domain.
Matt Drozdzynski
A big change in 2015 in the world of Web performance is the shift to metrics that do a better job of measuring the user experience. The best examples of these new UX-focused metrics are Start Render and Speed Index.
Steve Souders
Your job just became a lot easier. Our new eBook features dozens of tips and tricks to boost .NET performance. With contributions from .NET experts around the world, you’ll have a faster app in no time. Download your free copy.
Red Gate Software   sponsored 
Chrome 48 introduces a Security panel to help you work with issues relating to certificates and mixed content.
Google
Now there’s an error code to send when content is blocked for legal reasons.
Cory Doctorow
Design your cloud architecture in a snap with a rich set of AWS components. Layout your components on a grid and connect them to build your unique architecture.
Cloudcraft
Software-defined networks (SDNs) are playing an increasing role at Google. Here’s an extensive interview covering how it’s been working out.
ACM
Jobs
Indeed Prime is an elite new program from Indeed.com that presents in-demand tech talent like you to top employers. Indeed Prime opens the door to exciting career opportunities with one simple application. Join today.
Indeed
In brief
A look at how companies are switching from Solr to Elasticsearch behind the scenes for their internal search systems.
The Information
If you use Hetzner with certain boot images, you may have failed to get a unique SSH host key.
Hetzner
Join Codeship engineer Laura Frank in this free webinar where she gives an overview of the Docker ecosystem and about how Docker works. At the end you will know how to develop a web application with Docker containers.
Codeship   sponsored 
High Scalability
Parker Selbert
It supports both ‘Basic’ Authentication and manipulating the DOM to use a normal cookie-driven login mechanism.
Rick Viscomi
Tammy Everts
InfoWorld
Vagrant 1.8 Released   tools   news 
The popular tool for building and managing development environments using VMs.
HashiCorp
Make a simple HTTP request (with curl, for example) to set up a basic monitor with e-mail alerts.
ping
A Go-based web server that serves sites over HTTPS, automatically, using Let’s Encrypt.
Matt Holt
Amazon Web Services Labs