A gentle introduction to the fundamental processes of network load balancing and proxying.

A crafty system engineer finds a way to store data in DNS caches all around the world.. Pretty pointless but such a fun story.

“I was able to issue SSL certificates I was not supposed to be able to. AWS CloudFront and Heroku were among the affected.” Let’s Encrypt themselves responded very quickly.

Today’s big offenders originate on the hardware side – more specifically, the CPU. Tom De Cooman and Kenny Gryp from Percona examine the recent revelations about CPU security vulnerabilities that came to light at the beginning of the new year.

Don’t just jump on the microservices train because everyone else is, says Dave Kerr. They present challenges of their own..

Tips and tricks for scaling SQLite for 4M real-ish queries per second on a single server, and how bare metal compares to EC2 for this workload.

A good explanation of the concepts around a long-standing form of DoS attack.

A look at what Amazon’s Web-based IDE Cloud9 brings to the table, along with CodeStar (essentially a set of wizards/templates for deploying AWS services).