StatusCode Weekly Covering the week's news in software development, ops, platforms, and tooling. | A Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day at Slack — While I don't think you can take pleasure in someone else's outage, the story behind an outage can make for good reading indeed. So it goes here with a significant outage Slack had in May and it came down to how they were using HAProxy, one of my favorite bits of infrastructure software ever. Laura Nolan |
| ▶ The Story of Building Subversion — A podcast interview (but with full transcript!) with one of the original creators of Subversion, a version control system that saw a lot of popularity in the early 2000s. CoRecursive Podcast podcast |
 The Codified Cloud Security Platform for Developers — Bridge the gap between security and developers with a common language—code. Find, fix, and prevent cloud misconfigs in both run-time (AWS, GCP, etc.) and build-time (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.). Sign up for free. Bridgecrew |
| Code Only Says What It Does — But, quite often, the why is useful to know too, and "few topics invite a programmer flame war like comments.." Some basic thoughts worth chewing over. Marc Brooker |
ℹ️ Interested in running a job listing in StatusCode Weekly? There's more info here. | Running Spot Instances Effectively with Amazon EKS — One of the developers behind Basecamp's new HEY email service shares some insights on keeping as much of their compute infrastructure on EC2's cheaper spot instances as possible (around 90% so far, they claim). Blake Stoddard (Basecamp) |
| The SaaS Security CTO Checklist — Learn the latest best practices for SaaS CTOs and technical leaders around leveling up your company's security with this actionable checklist. Sqreen |
| Building Domain Driven Microservices — If you've been in the industry a while you'll see the same ideas come around again and again, and DDD is one of those. This is, nonetheless, a good high level overview. Chandra Ramalingam |
| Cloudflare's Approach to Making the WAF 40% Faster — Web Application Firewalls are a key part of protecting modern webapps against security threats nowadays and Cloudflare runs one at mega scale. This post covers a few of the things they've done to improve performance. Miguel de Moura (Cloudflare) |
| Gopherspace in the Year 2020 — I know this makes me a huge nerd, but anything to do with 'old' Internet protocols is my bag, and did you know there are still Gopher systems out there? Think the Web, but more lightweight and hierarchical. (And modern versions of cURL even support it.) Cheapskate |
| Heliocron: Run Programs in Relation to Daylight — We've linked this before but it's had some updates. It's capable of delaying execution of other programs for time periods relative to 'solar events' like sunrise and sunset. Michael Freeborn |
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