--- title: "Issue 1: Hi HTTP/2, Bye SPDY; Server-Sent Events; and Securing the Web" publication: "StatusCode Weekly" issue: 1 published_at: "2015-02-10" canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/1" --- WebOps Weekly 1 . The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news. -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/1) [![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 1 — February 10, 2015 Welcome Welcome to the birth of WebOps Weekly - a new weekly covering HTTP, Web technologies, infrastructure and performance. Check out the 'interview' with me below for more. Enjoy! [Hello HTTP/2, Goodbye SPDY](http://blog.chromium.org/2015/02/hello-http2-goodbye-spdy-http-is_9.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news HTTP/2 is an update for the Web’s underlying protocol and includes features like as multiplexing and header compression that have evolved from Google’s SPDY protocol. Google plans to drop support for SPDY in Chrome in 2016 to focus on HTTP/2. Chromium Blog [Pushpin: A New Way to Build Realtime HTTP and WebSocket Services](http://pushpin.org/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools A pub/sub service meets reverse proxy that works with any backend and lets you serve realtime and non-realtime endpoints from the same app. pushpin.​org [HTTPSWatch: Tracks The HTTPS Support of Prominent Websites](https://httpswatch.com/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools httpswatch.​com [Server-Sent Events Reach W3C Recommendation Status](http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/REC-eventsource-20150203/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news SSE provides an API for opening an HTTP connection for receiving push notifications from a server in the form of DOM events. They’re quite popular now but here’s [one of the classic tutorials](http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/eventsource/basics/) on their use. W3C [Awesome WPO: A Curated List of Web Performance Optimization Resources](https://github.com/davidsonfellipe/awesome-wpo?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Anyone can contribute, but so far includes things like analyzers, benchmarking tools, image optimizers, minifiers, and specs. Davidson Fellipe [Securing the Web: W3C TAG Findings](https://w3ctag.github.io/web-https/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion The W3C’s Technical Architecture Group has officially approved recommendations that the Web should move to HTTPS by default. W3C Q&A Peter Cooper Publisher-in-chief, Cooper Press — ![](http://cooperpress.s3.amazonaws.com/peterc.png) So what's WebOps Weekly really all about? It's a weekly newsletter aimed at anyone interested in HTTP, Web performance, Web servers, infrastructure, CDNs, and anything involved in getting Web content from the metal to the end users. Isn't that really just 'devops'? No. I've kept looking into this and DevOps tends to covers a lot of process and people oriented areas, such as 'Agile', quality assurance, management, CI, deployment processes, and collaboration. We're more focused on the underlying technology. Why are you doing a Q&A with yourself anyway? I want to experiment with new forms of content in our newsletters, and hope to frequently include small interviews in WebOps Weekly. This is where it starts :-) Infrastructure, Protocols, and Networks [Resilient Networking: Planning for Failure](https://www.igvita.com/2015/01/26/resilient-networking/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) ‘All connections are slow some of the time. All connections fail some of the time.’ So we need to be prepared for even 4G users to be falling back to 3G and 2G occasionally on our sites. Ilya Grigorik [FCC States That 1 in 6 US Internet Users Don't Have Broadband Access](http://www.webperformancetoday.com/2015/01/29/fcc-changes-broadband-definition/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Web Performance Today [Multiplexing with SPDY and HTTP/2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_BxVEOVRNw&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video Guy Bedford talks about how HTTP/2 changes how we optimize for performance in the front-end, and how we can begin transitioning to multiplexing workflows today. YouTube [Comcast: A Poor Network Connection Simulator](https://github.com/tylertreat/Comcast?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Tinkers behind the scenes with ipfw/pfctl/iptables/tc to make your network temporarily act poorly to enable more realistic testing. Tyler Treat Performance [Speeding Up HTTPS with Session Resumption](http://calendar.perfplanet.com/2014/speeding-up-https-with-session-resumption/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial TLS has several features that can be used to eliminate round trips during when resuming a session. Nick focuses on session resumption based on session ID which works in all modern browsers. Nick Sullivan [These 7 Things Are Slowing Down Your Site's User Experience (and You Have No Control Over Them)](http://www.webperformancetoday.com/2015/01/21/xx-things-slowing-site-control/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Web Performance Today [Fast-Forward (Web) Performance – The Future Looks Bright](http://calendar.perfplanet.com/2014/fast-forward-performance-the-future-looks-bright/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion The APIs and technologies involved in measuring Web site performance and making Web pages faster. Barbara Bermes [Hulken: A Stress Testing Tool for Everything Speaking HTTP](http://hellgrenj.github.io/hulken/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools hellgrenj.​github.​io [A Performance Timing Google Chrome Extension](http://tech.gilt.com/post/102040499384/new-in-gilt-open-source-a-performance-timing?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Graphs common performance timing data from your current website using the performance timing API. Gilt [Performance Recommendation: Do Not Use jQuery's hide() Method. Ever.](https://github.com/jquery/jquery.com/issues/88?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email#issuecomment-72400007) opinion Paul Irish [Researching The Performance Costs of JavaScript MVC Frameworks](http://www.filamentgroup.com/lab/mv-initial-load-times.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Filament Group [The Applied Science of Runtime Performance](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCFQu0hK6bU&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video Chrome Dev Summit 2014 [Leverage Browser Storage For a Faster Web](http://calendar.perfplanet.com/2014/leverage-browser-storage-for-a-faster-web/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Chris Love [11 Reasons to Care About Mobile Performance in 2015](http://www.webperformancetoday.com/2015/02/04/11-reasons-care-mobile-performance-2015-infographic/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion An infographic. Web Performance Today [5 Ways to Make Your Site Smaller and Faster](http://davidwalsh.name/site-speed?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Optimize images, use a CDN, use smaller glyph fonts, generate static files, and lazy load resources. David Walsh Server-side and Deployment [Running Ruby On Rails On IIS8 (or Anything Else, Really) with The New HttpPlatformHandler](http://www.hanselman.com/blog/AnnouncingRunningRubyOnRailsOnIIS8OrAnythingElseReallyWithTheNewHttpPlatformHandler.aspx?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools HttpPlatformHandler allows IIS to host anything that can run on Windows and listen on a certain port, basically a reverse proxy plugin. Scott Hanselman [Deploying to Heroku using Gulp, Node, and Git](http://www.sitepoint.com/deploying-heroku-using-gulp-node-git/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial SitePoint [Detecting PhantomJS-Based Visitors](http://engineering.shapesecurity.com/2015/01/detecting-phantomjs-based-visitors.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Shape Security Labs [How to Set Up CloudFlare's Free SSL on Heroku](http://robots.thoughtbot.com/set-up-cloudflare-free-ssl-on-heroku?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Thoughtbot [How to Set Up Stress-free SSL On An OS X Development Machine](https://gist.github.com/jed/6147872?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Jed Schmidt [Apache vs Nginx: Practical Considerations](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/apache-vs-nginx-practical-considerations?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion DigitalOcean [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/1) [See our archives](http://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*) [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*) Published by [Cooperpress](https://cooperpress.com/) Fairfield Enterprise Centre, Lincoln Way, Louth, LN11 0LS, UK