- Avoiding the Top 10 NGINX Configuration Mistakes: I haven’t used nginx in prod in a little while but I do like it a lot. Dependable little server with simple enough to grok config. I am guilty of the following: (Which is not to say I got into any trouble mind you)
- Not creating an upstream block
- Not enough file descriptors
- Not using keep alive
- Unsecured access to metrics
- Leadership, alignment: A thread about strategy and alignment and about how you can get that by communicating with your leader. Autonomy doesn’t mean picking up a task or area of responsibility and taking it away. It’s more about figuring out when + how to involve a leader in different ways over time. It’s about figuring out how to work together!
- The 5 Most Important HTTP Headers: Headers important to backend servers intended for api use or just serving resources over http generally
- Accept eg text/html, application/xhtml+xml
- Content-Type eg application/json
- Authorization eg Authorization: Bearer , Authorization: Basic
- Cookie / Set-Cookie
- Access-Control-Allow-Origin
- The Truth About “MEH-TRICS”: Charity talks about where metrics use adds value to a monitoring platform that includes metrics and observability. Metrics can help you understand what’s happening at a summary level for code you use but don’t own. (eg nginx, tomcat, postfix) Observability and deeper insight should be a thing you prioritize for code you do own and need to know inside and out
