April 2018

pawelmhm.github.io

Benchmarks python-aiohttp making up to a million HTTP requests, with asyncio client code and a comparison against synchronous alternatives.

karlstoney.com

How to mount a FUSE filesystem inside Kubernetes pods, using Google Cloud Storage as the worked example.

rsmitty.github.io

Walkthrough deploying a Kubernetes cluster on OpenStack, provisioning the infrastructure with Terraform and configuring it with the Kubespray Ansible playbooks.

harishnarayanan.org

Guide to containerising a Django application with Docker and running it on Kubernetes for scale and resilience.

itnext.io

Short walkthrough setting up Kubernetes cluster monitoring with Prometheus and the Prometheus Operator.

blog.figma.com

How Figma's rate limiter approximates a sliding window by combining many small fixed time windows, stored as Redis hashes to keep memory use down.

eloquentjavascript.net

Introductory book on JavaScript and programming, free to read in full online and also sold as a paperback.

jaegertracing.io

Documentation portal for Jaeger, the open-source distributed tracing platform, covering architecture, deployment, storage backends and operations.

css-blocks.com

Component-oriented CSS authoring system that analyses templates at build time and compiles blocks into optimised, conflict-free stylesheets.