Caddy

Matt Holt & Mohammed S. Al Sahaf sit down with Natalie & Jon to discuss every gopher’s favorite open source web server with automatic HTTPS! In addition to laying out what Caddy is and why it’s interesting, we dive deep into how you can (and why you might want to) extend Caddy as a result of its modular architecture. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 6 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Chronosphere – Chronosphere is the observability platform for cloud-native teams operating at scale. When it comes to observability, teams need a reliable, scalable, and efficient solution so they can know about issues well before their customers do. Teams choose Chronosphere to help them move faster than the competition. Learn more and get a demo at chronosphere.io. Akuity – Akuity is a new platform (founded by Argo co-creators) that brings fully-managed Argo CD and enterprise services to the cloud or on premise. They’re inviting our listeners to join the closed beta at akuity.io/changelog. The platform is a versatile Kubernetes operator for handling cluster deployments the GitOps way. Deploy your apps instantly and monitor their state — get minimum overhead, maximum impact, and enterprise readiness from day one. Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust. There is a massive opportunity for developers to support Square sellers by building apps for today’s business needs. Learn more at changelog.com/square to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you. Retool – The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools — Some of the best teams out there trust Retool…Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Doordash, LegalGenius, Amazon, Allbirds, Peloton, and so many more – the developers at these teams trust Retool as the platform to build their internal tools. Try it free at retool.com/changelog Featuring: Matt Holt – Website, GitHub, X Mohammed S. Al Sahaf – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X Show Notes: Caddy’s homepage Docs on extending Caddy caddy-ssh Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Matt Holt

Creator of Caddy

Caddy

Mohammed S. Al Sahaf

Matt Holt joins Jon Calhoun to discuss Caddy, its history, and the process of creating a v2 of the popular web server. In the episode they discuss some of the challenges encountered while building the v2, reasons for doing a major rewrite, and more. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 3 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Sourcegraph – Sourcegraph is universal code search for every developer and team. Easily search across all the code that matters to you and your organization: find example code, explore and read code, debug issues, and more. Head to info.sourcegraph.com/changelog and click the button “Try Sourcegraph now” to get started. Equinix Metal – If you want the choice and control of hardware…with low overhead…and the developer experience of the cloud – you need to check out Equinix Metal. Deploy in minutes across 18 global locations, from Silicon Valley to Sydney. Visit metal.equinix.com/justaddmetal and receive $100 credit to play. Changelog++ – You love our content and you want to take it to the next level by showing your support. We’ll take you closer to the metal with no ads, extended episodes, outtakes, bonus content, a deep discount in our merch store (soon), and more to come. Let’s do this! Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com. Featuring: Matt Holt – Website, GitHub, X Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X Show Notes: Caddy - A web server written in Go with automatic HTTPS by default. Caddy v2 Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Matt Holt

Creator of Caddy

Caddy

In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk Matt Holt about Caddy, SSL, web servers, best practices, and more! LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax. Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at freshbooks.com/syntax and put SYNTAX in the “How did you hear about us?” section. Cloudinary - Sponsor Cloudinary is the best way to manage images and videos in the cloud. Edit and transform for any use case, from performance to personalization, using Cloudinary’s APIs, SDKs, widgets, and integrations. Guests Matt Holt Show Notes 02:08 - Who are you and what do you do? 03:22 - Why would you want to build a web server? 08:45 - How do SSL certs work? 14:03 - Why do you even need a web server? 23:03 - Is it better to have a web server serve your images? 20:31 - What is load balancing and why might you need it? 31:35 - Is server administration a lost art? 38:03 - What is a sidecar proxy? 38:50 - How do chron jobs work? 39:50 - Why is GO so fast? Why is it good? 46:32 - Should every website have an SSL certificate? Links Floss Weekly 364 Caddy Let’s Encrypt Certbot PM2 https://doesmysiteneedhttps.com Tello Drone ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Matt: LG Stick Vacuum Scott: Alen Pure BreatheSmart Air Purifier Wes: Tello EDU Shameless Plugs Matt: Matt Holt Sponsorships Scott: All Courses - Sign up for the year and save 25%! Wes: All Courses - Use the coupon code ‘Syntax’ for $10 off! Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

Matt Holt

Creator of Caddy

Caddy

This episode wins the contest for the most protocols discussed. Matt Holt joined the show to to talk about TLS, Let’s Encrypt, the ACME protocol, CaddyServer, and a host of other important information security issues. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Linode – Our cloud server of choice! We host everything we do on Linode servers. Use the code gotime20 to get 2 months free! Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Equinox – Build, package and distribute self-updating Go apps to your customers. It’s perfect for CLI tools and on-premise Go software. Featuring: Matt Holt – Website, GitHub, X Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X Carlisia Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, X Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X Show Notes: CaddyServer Caddy 0.9 Released with All New Core (blog post) Papaparse: a CSV parser for the browser websocketd: Turn any program that uses STDIN/STDOUT into a WebSocket server. Like inetd, but for WebSockets. Let’s Encrypt: free SSL certificates PKI (wikipedia) Key concepts of information security: Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability, Non-repudiation Bulletproof TLS Newsletter ACME Protocole Extended Validation Certificate Manage TLS certificates automatically via LetsEncrypt.org Automated wrapper to add let’s encrypt support to go servers Interesting Go Projects and News GopherCon Brasil sponsorship prospectus Hewlett Packard Go AST Scanner Static analysis tool for Go that protects against SQL injections Synchronization, error propagation, and Context cancelation for groups of goroutines working on subtasks of a common task Brad Fitzpatrick’s functest library Go wrapper for the .NET Core Runtime Fatih’s vim-go tutorial Keep track of upcoming vim-go features Free Software Friday Brian ­- Python Carlisia - Exercism good first patches Matt - A QUIC protocol server implementation in pure Go: faster HTTPS communication Erik - Mosh: the mobile shell, Wireshack Troubleshooting with Wireshark: Locate the Source of Performance Problems (book) , and TCP Dump Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Matt Holt

Creator of Caddy

Caddy

Matt Holt and Sebastian Erhart joined the show to talk about Caddy the HTTP/2 web server written in Go. It’s time to serve the web like it’s 2015! Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Codeship – If it works with Docker, it works with Codeship Jet. Toptal – Join Toptal and work with awesome people from anywhere in the world. Freelance with companies like Airbnb, Artsy & IDEO. imgix – Real-time Image Processing. Resize, crop, and process images on the fly, simply by changing their URLs. Linode – Our cloud server of choice! We host everything we do on Linode servers. Use the code gotime20 to get 2 months free! Featuring: Matt Holt – Website, GitHub, X Sebastian Erhart – GitHub, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Caddy - The HTTP/2 Web Server Made for Humans Caddy on GitHub Experimental install script (some hate piping into bash, but others find it convenient) mholt/caddy Let’s Encrypt xenolf/lego on GitHub A technical look at the inside of Caddy (Go language) [Podcast Suggestion] Matt Holt - Caddy HTTP/2 Web Server Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Matt Holt

Creator of Caddy

Caddy

Sebastian Erhart

Contributor

Caddy