---
title: "Issue 10: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 10
published_at: "2015-04-15"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/10"
---

WebOps Weekly 10   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/10) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 10 — April 15, 2015     

[A Proposal to Deprecate Insecure HTTP](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.platform/xaGffxAM-hs/9JiStoGhHY0J?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A plan that would entail ‘limiting new features to secure contexts, followed by gradually removing legacy features from insecure contexts’. mozilla.​dev.​platform [Fixing the 'Blank Text' Problem](https://www.igvita.com/2015/04/10/fixing-the-blank-text-problem/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) 29% of page loads on Chrome for Android displayed blank text between 350ms and 2300ms due to an unavailable font resource. Ilya Grigorik [HTTP/2 Explained in 5 Minutes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ0C4zN5uOQ&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video A bite-sized talk that gives a high level look at what HTTP/2 is for and about. Ben Maraney [The first ops platform for developers](https://opbeat.com/?campaign=webopsweekly&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=ad&utm_campaign=webopsweekly100) When an error happens, Opbeat will show you the code that is breaking, who wrote it, and how it is affecting performance. Now available for iOS and Android, so you can do ops when you’re AFK. _WebOps Weekly readers get $100 credit._ Opbeatsponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/906f6ee6.png)](https://opbeat.com/?campaign=webopsweekly&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=ad&utm_campaign=webopsweekly100) [The Path to Performance: A Web Performance Podcast](http://pathtoperf.com/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A podcast dedicated to fostering a culture around web performance in organizations. Episode 1 features Lara Hogan of Etsy. Katie Kovalcin and Tim Kadlec [Opera Mini Browser Gets Fine-Tuned for Speed](http://www.cnet.com/news/opera-mini-for-android-gets-major-overhaul-to-target-more-users/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Steve Souders noted on Twitter that a key feature here is that Opera Mini “compresses a Web page to as little as 10 percent of its original size to make it load more quickly”. CNet [Chrome Starts Pushing Java Off The Web by Disabling Plugins](http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/04/chrome-starts-pushing-java-off-the-web-by-disabling-plugins/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Chrome 42, which hit the release channel today, turns off NPAPI support by default, marking the start of the end for plugins as commonly used for things like Java and Silverlight. Ars Technica [Docker Raises $95M Series D Round For Its Container Platform](http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/14/docker-raises-95m-series-d-round-for-its-container-platform/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) TechCrunch In brief [Announcing NGINX Plus Release 6 with Enhanced Load Balancing, High Availability, and Monitoring Features](http://nginx.com/blog/nginx-plus-r6-released/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news NGINX [Microsoft Doubles Down On Containers](http://sdtimes.com/microsoft-doubles-down-on-containers/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news SD Times [True Zero Downtime HAProxy Reloads](http://engineeringblog.yelp.com/2015/04/true-zero-downtime-haproxy-reloads.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Yelp Engineering [Negotiating HTTP/2: ALPN And The TLS Handshake](http://matthewparrilla.com/post/negotiation-http2-alpn-tls-handshake/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Matthew Parrilla [How Many HTTP Status Codes Should Your API Use?](https://blogs.dropbox.com/developers/2015/04/how-many-http-status-codes-should-your-api-use/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Dropbox Developer Blog [Let's Not Use HTTP Over TCP for Mobile Apps Anymore](https://packetzoom.com/blog/lets-not-use-http-over-tcp-for-mobile-apps-anymore.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Chetan Ahuja [Plain Web Text Offenders: Sending My Location Over HTTP When HTTPS Was Possible](http://blog.jgc.org/2015/04/plain-web-text-offenders-sending-my.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion John Graham-Cumming [PutsReq: A Web Tool to Record HTTP Requests and Simulate Responses](http://putsreq.com/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools putsreq.​com [httpq: Buffer HTTP Requests and Replay Them Later](https://github.com/DavidHuie/httpq?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools David Huie [ngx_http_estreaming_module: An Adaptive HLS Streaming Module for NGINX](https://github.com/whatvn/ngx_http_estreaming_module?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Hung Nguyen [Lumen: A PHP Framework for Building Lightning Fast Micro-Services and APIs](https://laravel-news.com/2015/04/lumen/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Laravel    [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/10) [See our archives](http://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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