// bennadel.com
Ben Nadel at InVision explains why he's killing-off his microservices and share a bit more insight about this particular journey in the world of web application development.
// itnext.io
Lars Eidnes and team rendered the top 1 million pages on the web, tracking every conceivable performance metric, logging every error, and noting every requested URL. In this article, he analyzes what the data can tell us about creating high performance web sites.
// evrl.com
The Cloud was born, first as a marketing label for an old business model (offering “virtual private servers” to the public), but more and more as a marketing label for an even older business model (the mainframe - we run it, we own it, you lease capacity).
// theverge.com
Microsoft is designing its own ARM-based processors for servers and possibly a future Surface device. The processors will be used in servers for Microsoft’s Azure cloud services and be based around ARM designs.
// acloudguru.com
Lambda is finally gaining serious adoption because it’s shedding the FaaS purism that marked its early days — without compromising on its real value prop, the progressive promise of own less, build more.
// hacks.mozilla.org
In this series of posts Mozilla explores the current web-application testing landscape and explain what Firefox is doing today to allow developers to run more kinds of tests in Firefox.
// status.cloud.google.com
On Monday December 14, for a duration of 47 minutes, customer-facing Google services that required Google OAuth access were unavailable. This is Google's root cause analysis and plan to prevent future issues.
// planetstoryline.com
Red Hat has been in hot water about changing the way CentOS operates, but that model looks like the exact right way for open source entrepreneurs to operate.
// krebsonsecurity.com
The attackers behind the widespread hacking spree stemming from the compromise at network software firm SolarWinds used weaknesses in other, non-SolarWinds products to attack high-value targets. According to sources, among those was a flaw in software virtualization platform VMware.