Brilliant This is pretty ingenious. If you can’t move your servers closer to your users, you can still use edge proxies to work around the connection startup latency.

Tracing I love blog posts like this, the step-by-step to troubleshoot a tricky problem. Brendan Gregg on using DTrace to spot a bugand get a 2000x speed up.

Repeat Vendor everything is the best practice that every new language/platform eventually re-discovers. Here’s Mikeal on the current, early stage of“vendor everything” and Node.js.

OK Cancel Some days you wonder if all the good UX people have been fired, or are launching their own stealth startups: Dear Thunderbird: I know you can’t save my draft; please stop complaining about it

Corruption How does it work? What a surprise this would happen with SOPA/PIPA. Shocking.

QotD DevOps Borat:

Is call middleware because you can not able make head or tail of it.