How multiplexing will change HTTP APIs

Plus Perl 6 is now Raku, a curl game, and what's new in Python 3.8.

#238 — October 16, 2019 Read on the Web StatusCode Covering the week's news in software development, infrastructure, ops, platforms, and performance. free-for.dev: A Bumper List of Stuff That's 'Free' for Developers — An interesting and extensive list of hosted services or otherwise paid-for products that have free tiers or options for developers. R.I.Pienaar is-website-vulnerable: Find Known Vulnerabilities in a Site's Frontend Libraries — This is a neat tool, especially as npx lets you run it right now as simply as npx is-website-vulnerable http://.... (assuming you have npm installed). Give it a try on your own site. Liran Tal How Multiplexing Changes Your HTTP APIs — One of HTTP/2's headline features and advantages over HTTP/1 is multiplexing, the ability to have multiple requests and responses in flight on one connection. This has big implications for APIs in general, says Mark Nottingham. Mark Nottingham New Public Go, Docker & Kubernetes Training are Available For You — Per your request we're offering public training sessions in the US & Europe. Click on the link to learn more. We have trained over 4,000 engineers and more than 200 companies from Fortune 500's to startups. Let us help you achieve your goals. Let's talk. Ardan Labs sponsor You Cannot cURL Under Pressure: A cURL Game — The latest work of genius from Ben Cox is an interactive, playable game testing your knowledge of the curl command. You can play the game here or, maybe even more interestingly, learn how it's implemented using curl itself. Ben Cox Python 3.8 Released: What's New? — The first significant release of Python following the language's creator stepping down as BDFL ('benevolent dictator for life') earlier this year. PSF How LinkedIn Customizes Apache Kafka for 7 Trillion Messages Per Day — Unsurprisingly, 'messages' here refers to internal messages rather than human generated ones, but LinkedIn still operates at an immense scale. Jon Lee Quick bytes: Amazon Web Services is now sponsoring the development of the Rust programming language. Larry Wall (the creator of Perl) has approved the renaming of Perl 6 to Raku. AWS now has some instance types that let you use up to 100 Gbps of network bandwidth(!) There were 50 Web servers in 1993, 100,000 in 1996, and more than a billion now. Paul Graham, he of Y Combinator fame, is working on a new dialect of Lisp. 💻 Jobs DevOps Engineer at X-Team (Remote) — Work with the world's leading brands, from anywhere. Travel the world while being part of the most energizing community of developers. X-Team Find A Job Through Vettery — Vettery specializes in tech roles and is completely free for job seekers. Create a profile to get started. Vettery 💬 Stories and Opinions Migration Complete: Amazon's Consumer Business Just Turned off Its Final Oracle Database — ..and the sense of how happy Amazon is about this is palpable! Migrating away from a legacy database is no easy task at the best of times, and especially not at Amazon's scale. Jeff Barr (AWS) How Zalando manages 140+ Kubernetes Clusters — Zalando is a European fashion e-commerce site running a significant number of Kubernetes clusters on AWS. Henning Jacobs Learn How One Startup Kept Its Remote Team Engaged While Scaling Range sponsor And 'Lo!' - How The Internet Was Born — A high-level news item reflecting back on the technology that made up the Arpanet, which led to the Internet of today. BBC News Database Deep Dives: A Chat with FaunaDB's Creator — An interview with Fauna's CEO, Evan Weaver, on why you might pick a global, serverless database like Fauna and the details of handling consensus. Josh Mintz (IBM) Reducing Docker Image Size and Cutting Google Cloud Costs Matt Zeunert Reversing a Supermarket's Private APIs for Automated Couponing — The sort of fun automation story I enjoy reading, at least. JonLuca DeCaro Watch Now: Elastic App Search Overview and Demo — App Search simplifies the process of building rich search experiences for software applications of every kind. elastic.co sponsor My Vision of D's Future — D is an interesting language that has never quite got the same level of press as Rust or Go but it continues to make progress. Atila Neves Ask Hacker News: What Do You Self-Host? — I imagine readers of this newsletter are more likely than most to 'self host' their own services, so you might enjoy this discussion on Hacker News. Hacker News 🛠 Code and Tools Firefox's New WebSocket Inspector — The new WebSocket inspector, part of the existing Network panel UI in DevTools, will be released in Firefox 71, but is ready for use in Firefox Developer Edition now. Here's a look at how it works. Mozilla Hacks AWS IAM Least Privilege Policy Generator — If you too have endured the headache that is making IAM policies for your AWS services, this could be the tonic you need. Salesforce WebAssembly.sh: An Online WebAssembly Terminal — An online WebAssembly Terminal to run WASI modules directly on your browser. Aaron Turner Assist: Instant Terminal Sharing From Anywhere — A screen-esque system (but which works across the Internet) for sharing a terminal with another person. Assist Bazel 1.0: A Popular, Software Building and Testing Tool Google

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