Issue 9 — April 10, 2015
A browser-based webapp that lets engineers see hand-picked, high-resolution system and application metrics on widget-filled dashboards.
The Netflix Tech Blog
A look at how using two different DNS providers can result in lower response times and higher reliability.
TurboBytes
A highly scalable container management service that supports Docker containers to run applications on a cluster of EC2 instances.
Amazon
Everything you need to build, deploy and manage containers in production in one single tool.
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Custom web fonts can have a performance impact on your site, so people are continuing to investigate both caching and subsetting them to speed things up.
SitePoint
A tool primarily aimed at marketers but which runs Google’s PageSpeed Insights against competing sites so you can attempt to outrank them on speed related factors.
UpWord
An explanation of what Docker is and why it might be useful to you, followed by a complete walkthrough of setting it up and running a Node app on a Docker container you’ll create.
Heitor Tashiro Sergent
Rey Bango shows how to use RemoteIE to test sites in IE across multiple platforms.
SitePoint
Jobs
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Harvest
In brief
Mattias Geniar
Sandstorm News
Defines a mechanism to instruct a user agent to upgrade insecure resource requests to a secure transport before fetching them.
W3C
A new file storage service for EC2 based around NFS. A key difference to EBS is that multiple EC2 instances can access a EFS file system at the same time.
Amazon
Microsoft Azure Blog
Heitor Tashiro Sergent
Pascal Arnould
Mozilla Hacks
Airpair
The popular peer-to-peer e-commerce site shares a report on their performance, including the results of rolling out HHVM for their internal API.
Code as Craft
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Evert Pot
Dropbox Developer Blog
Fastly
Cachet HQ
Netrica