StatusCode Weekly Covering the week's news in software development, ops, platforms, and tooling. ✍️ Editor's note: Given the developing international situation, you might notice some changes over the coming weeks as we adapt to things. We hope you're doing as well as the situation allows and we plan to stay on the air 🙂 If you release anything or even have something you want to share with the developer community, hit reply and let us know. | Cloudflare on Recent Changes in Internet Traffic — As the COVID-19 emergency continues and increasing numbers of people are working from home (or are quarantined at home in various ways) the Internet has become both more essential and more heavily used. As a carrier of a lot of traffic nowadays, Cloudflare has some unique insights into how things have shifted. Louis Poinsignon |
| Finding a Problem at the Bottom of the Google Stack — A write up of how Google's SRE practices identified and fixed an issue that was, quite literally, at the bottom of their hardware stack, and an interesting example of how physical problems can have software manifestations. Steve McGhee (Google) |
| JavaScript: The First 20 Years — Allen Wirfs-Brock and Brendan Eich (the creator of JavaScript) have written a paper for the forthcoming History of Programming Languages Conference about how a 'sidekick scripting language for Java' was built and has grown. Allen Wirfs-Brock |
| npm is Joining GitHub — The company behind the leading package repository in the JavaScript ecosystem is being acquired by GitHub (who already launched their own package registry less than a year ago). GitHub |
| Find a Dev Job Through Vettery — Vettery is completely free for job seekers. Make a profile, name your salary, and connect with hiring managers from top employers. Vettery |
| 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 |
📕 Tutorials, Stories, and Opinions |
| NTP: Building A More Accurate Time Service at Facebook Scale — This is something I'm never going to need to do, but it's a fascinating tale of how Facebook has squeezed down their time updating accuracy from 10 milliseconds to 100 microseconds, and released their own public NTP service. Oleg Obleukhov (Facebook) |
| How Netflix Uses Druid for Real-Time Insights — "We're currently ingesting at over 2 million events per second, and querying over 1.5 trillion rows to get detailed insights into how our users are experiencing the service." Ben Sykes (Netflix) |
| The Anatomy of My Kubernetes Cluster — This is a really cool writeup if you like things on the geekier end of the spectrum. An engineer built a cluster of Raspberry Pis to run as a Kubernetes cluster and here's how it's formed, complete with photos. Antonin Stefanutti |
| The Reckless, Infinite Scope of Web Browsers — "I conclude that it is impossible to build a new web browser. The complexity of the web is obscene. The creation of a new web browser would be comparable in effort to the Apollo program or the Manhattan project." Drew DeVault |
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