The future of Kubernetes is virtual machines

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Kubernetes as a technology has been very important to my career this year, and will be even more so for next year too. As 2018 comes to a close its time to drag out the hubris and make a bold prediction. The future of Kubernetes is Virtual Machines, not…

27 December 2018

Why I left React for Vue

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Recently, Vue.js gained more stars that React on Github. The popularity of this framework is soaring these days, and as it is not backed by a company like Facebook (React) or Google (Angular), it is surprising to see it rising out of nowhere. Back in the…

26 December 2018

IPv6 xmas display uses 75 Internet's worth of addresses

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We’ve seen internet-enabled holiday displays before, and we know IPv6 offers much more space than the older IPv4 addressing scheme that most of us still use today, but the two have never been more spectacularly demonstrated than at jinglepings.com. The…

24 December 2018

Etsy’s experiment with immutable documentation

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Writing documentation is like trying to hit a moving target. The way a system works changes constantly, so as soon as you write a piece of documentation for it, it starts to get stale. And the systems that need docs the most are the ones being actively…

13 December 2018

GitLab Serverless

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Serverless is the latest innovation in cloud computing that promises to alter the cost-benefit equation for enterprises. As our CEO, Sid Sijbrandij says, "All roads lead to compute." There is a race among providers to acquire as many workloads from…

12 December 2018

Designing Headers for HTTP Compression

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Hi, I’m Mark Nottingham. I currently co-chair the IETF HTTP and QUIC Working Groups, and am a member of the Internet Architecture Board. I usually write here about the Web, protocol design, HTTP, and caching. Find out more. One of the concerns that…

10 December 2018

How to crawl a quarter billion webpages in 40 hours (2012)

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More precisely, I crawled 250,113,669 pages for just under 580 dollars in 39 hours and 25 minutes, using 20 Amazon EC2 machine instances. I carried out this project because (among several other reasons) I wanted to understand what resources are required…

5 July 2018

Web Framework Benchmarks

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Please enable JavaScript. We load results data from JSON files and use JavaScript to render the results as charts and data tables. Please enable JavaScript. We load results data from JSON files and use JavaScript to render the results as charts and data…

7 June 2018