Be Afraid Of HTTP Public Key Pinning (HPKP)
A look at an issue with HTTP Public Key Pinning that made Smashing Magazine unavailable to many visitors for several days. This could affect you too.
Mathias Biilmann Christensen
The Dyn DNS Attack: What It Means, 'Who Did It?' and How To Deal
A roundup of last Friday’s substantial DNS attack which made numerous popular sites unavailable across the US.
Mark Jeftovic
Scaling to 100,000s of Persistent Connections on One Machine at LinkedIn
The story of how LinkedIn has used Akka and its actor model along with Server-Sent Events to build out a powerful IM system for its users.
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Chrome to Require 'Certificate Transparency' in 2017
The Chrome team has announced plans that publicly trusted website certificates issued in October 2017 or later will be expected to comply with Chrome’s Certificate Transparency policy in order to be trusted by Chrome.
Ryan Sleevi
How We Deploy At npm, Inc.
A look at how the team behind the npm Node package management service deploy code (it’s a simple git push on the surface, but a lot happens behind that).
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Getting Teraflops Out of AWS Lambda from python
PyWren makes it easy to dispatch small tasks to Lambda from Python with the promise of reaching TFLOPS levels of performance.
Eric Jonas
Why CTOs are Warming Up to Microservices
Microservices, as an architectural approach, can act as a stepping stone to moving to cloud platforms.
Chris Latimer
Web Bloat Score Calculator
A tool with an interesting approach of measuring a page’s weight vs. the size of a screenshot of the same page.
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An Overview of TLS 1.3 - Faster and More Secure
TLS 1.3 is a new encryption protocol update that is both faster, reducing HTTPS overhead, and more secure than TLS 1.2.
Brian Jackson
Why Crawl Budget & URL Scheduling Might Impact Rankings in Site Migrations
Dawn Anderson
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