Issue 75 — July 20, 2016
RFC 3875 (CGI) puts the HTTP ‘Proxy’ header from a request into an ‘HTTP_PROXY’ environment variable, but this is then often used to configure an outgoing HTTP proxy.
Dominic Scheirlinck
A write up of a talk given at GCP NEXT 2016 about how Google approaches the challenge of providing ‘planet scale’ infrastructure.
High Scalability
A look at the performance outcomes 99designs experienced when adopting HTTP/2. In some cases, rendering time was increased - but why? “The pursuit of web performance is one of tradeoffs and nuance.”
Michael Mifsud
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The Raspberry Pi offers an appealing platform to play around with clustering on a smaller scale. Here, Malcolm demonstrates a Docker Swarm-backed cluster, built in just 30 minutes.
Malcolm Jones
Paul Tweedy explains how browsing across BBC Online will become more secure with the release of a new update. It appears Google Chrome encouraged the BBC to take this move.
BBC
Serverless architectures replace individually-managed servers with a collection of third party services and FaaS (Functions as a Service).
Mike Roberts
This post describes the vulnerability (top featured item) and explains how to use NGINX to defeat attempts to exploit it on your servers.
Owen Garrett
Microsoft is updating its TCP/IP network stack to take advantage of Google’s latest Internet network transport improvements.
Steven J.​ Vaughan-Nichols
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How clean is your codebase? Corgibytes can help you crank out features faster.
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New research reveals the factors that cause your mobile site to underperform.
Google
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Lawrence Hecht
Has moved away from peer-to-peer.
Peter Bright
Scott M.​ Fulton III
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Ben Sarmiento
Moving Sonar and Postgres off a Jenkins server.
Adam Sandor
Péter Márton
A look at image optimization, font choice, and ‘active waiting’.
Una Kravets
The final installment in a 5-part series discussing web application performance and how new protocols like SPDY, HTTP/2, and QUIC will hopefully improve it so we can have happy website users.
Jean Tunis
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e.g. SELECT instance_type, count(*) count FROM ec2_instances
Binh Le
Nick Muerdter
Doug Coker