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How We Optimize EC2 Costs at Intercom — Plan, plan, and plan some more. Plus use the right types of instance and savings plans.

Docker Releases Plugin for Simplified Deployments into AWS ECS and Fargate — Docker has announced the public beta of their enhanced integration of Docker with AWS Elastic Container Service and AWS Fargate.

Red Hat Mandrel Makes Java Native — Mandrel is a new GraalVM-based Java distribution that compiles Java apps directly to native code.

After Three Years of Work, Chrome Killed My Extension and Won’t Tell Me Why — This is a story worth checking out if your work ends up on the Chrome Webstore in any way (such as if you’re distributing a browser extension): “Complaining on the internet should not be a support channel. Developers should not have to rely on the internet attention lottery. The...

An Accessible Intro to Cloudflare Workers — If you’ve ever wondered why you might use Cloudflare’s Workers platform (a FaaS platform built on V8) rather than AWS Lambda or Azure Functions, this might give you some ideas or at least tempt you to have a play.

To Microservices and Back Again: Why Segment Went Back to a Monolith — When Segment moved to a microservices architecture, they gained environmental isolation, but at a cost of higher operational overhead. Three years later, the costs were too high, and the team migrated back to a monolith..

Demoing Web Applications with Firefox Containers — When demoing a feature to stakeholders or other engineers, incognito/private mode can be a big help but fail when you need to keep multiple sessions open at once. Firefox’s ‘multi-account containers’ extension to the rescue!

The Status of HTTP/3 — HTTP/3 is the next protocol for network communication across the Web, which is meant to partially replace HTTP/1 and HTTP/2. This a brief but link-packed update on where things stand.

▶  PID Loops and the Art of Keeping Systems Stable — A developer involved in building EC2, S3, and other AWS services shows what PID loops (essentially feedback and control loops - nothing to do with process IDs!) look like in the context of modern systems, and how exponential backoff, flow-control, and other techniques can be wielded to build self-healing systems.

Migrating a Retail Monolith to Microservices — At a recent event, a developer working on a monolithic app maintained by 2 teams explained how they broke things down to 270 microservices managed by 48(!) teams.

Linkerd v2: How Lessons from Production Adoption Resulted in a Rewrite of the Service Mesh — Amongst other things, the popular service mesh moved from being written in Scala to a split between Go and Rust.

Rewriting an API Gateway Service from Clojure to Go — Moving to Go gave AppsFlyer a statically typed language, improved performance, and a more stable solution.