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Google Chrome version 59 will ship with the headless option. This means you can test your web applications using chrome without needing a running window manager or xvfb.

When you take the microservices plunge, you have to decide how to let them talk to each other. There are two common approaches:

When I started at Faraday in the Summer of 2014, the company had begun a transition into a Saas product company. There were several individual apps that had grown into web services and queue workers. One of my first goals was to have a Continuous Integration system to run all the tests on each individual project.

When Apple announced Mac OS X Lion, their tagline was “Back to the Mac” as they were bringing some features from iOS into the desktop-oriented Mac OS. In the JavaScript world, a similar thing has happened: innovations in the Node.js space can be brought back to the browser. These innovations have made JavaScript development faster and cleaner with command-line tools and the npm packaging system.

The Graphite and statsd systems have been popular choices lately for recording system statistics, but there isn’t much written beyond how to get the basic system set up. Here are a few tips that will make your life easier.