Three Short Links is a daily look at interesting articles or projects that wander into my view. You’ll see a lot of code and musings on cloud and distributed architectures, cool new gadgets, and occasionally some more random topics including math, science, or, if you’re lucky, baseball.

• Docker Bench for Security: A pre-built Docker container that executes the CIS Docker 1.6 Benchmark security tests against another container to identify whether security best practices are being followed.
• XKCD plots for D3: Not much more to add besides the title. But this is so cool.
• pdfmake: Declarative Javascript PDF maker. Most of my programmatic PDF making is in Ruby with Prawn, but the declarative approach looks pretty nice. The nesting of objects might get a little confusing though.