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title: "Issue 101: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 101
published_at: "2017-02-01"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/101"
---

WebOps Weekly 101   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/101) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 101 — February 1, 2017     

[GitLab Down After Wrong Directory Deleted and Backups Fail](https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/01/gitlab_data_loss/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Source code hosting site GitLab is having a bad day after a sysadmin’s mistake turned into finding 5 different backup systems had all failed. They have a [live Google doc with details](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GCK53YDcBWQveod9kfzW-VCxIABGiryG7_z_6jHdVik/pub) (and even [a live video stream](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc0hPGerSd4)) about the incident. They are being very transparent and this is a great reminder to check your own backup solutions. The Register [Create Your First Serverless Application in Apache OpenWhisk](http://thenewstack.io/hands-guide-creating-first-serverless-application-apache-openwhisk/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial OpenWhisk is an open source serverless platform from IBM available in both hosted and on-premise forms. The New Stack [Using Immutable Caching To Speed Up The Web](https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/01/using-immutable-caching-to-speed-up-the-web/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial The ‘Cache-Control: Immutable’ header tells the browser an asset will _never_ change and so doesn't need to be reloaded. Ideal if you use a filename based versioning approach. Mozilla Hacks [The State of Bots: The Incapsula Bot Traffic Report](https://www.incapsula.com/blog/bot-traffic-report-2016.html?utm_source=WebOps&utm_campaign=Q1_2017&utm_medium=sponsored_link) The Imperva Incapsula Bot Traffic Report is an ongoing statistical study of the bot traffic landscape. Our latest report examined 16.7+ billion visits to 100,000 randomly-selected domains on the Incapsula network to compile the research on bot activity. Imperva Incapsulasponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/c01cafa9.png)](https://www.incapsula.com/blog/bot-traffic-report-2016.html?utm_source=WebOps&utm_campaign=Q1_2017&utm_medium=sponsored_link) [Google Introduces an API for Testing 'Mobile-Friendliness'](https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2017/01/introducing-mobile-friendly-test-api.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools You can now test whether Google thinks your site is “mobile-friendly” via an API, allowing you to automate the process or add it to your CI. Google [10 Myths About Docker That Stop Developers Cold](https://derickbailey.com/2017/01/30/10-myths-about-docker-that-stop-developers-cold/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion The author takes a look at the most common Docker myths and tries to find the truth in them, as well as any solutions to be found. Derick Bailey [A Million Requests Per Second with Python?](https://medium.com/@squeaky_pl/million-requests-per-second-with-python-95c137af319?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A look at a new ‘micro-framework’ called [Japronto](https://github.com/squeaky-pl/japronto) that leans heavily on C and HTTP pipelining. [Related Hacker News discussion](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13539767) as the numbers have been questioned. Paweł Piotr Przeradowski [A Browser Tweak That Has Saved 60% of Requests to Facebook](https://code.facebook.com/posts/557147474482256?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Facebook has worked with browser vendors to significantly improve web page loading times, particularly by reducing the amount of cached asset revalidation requests. Facebook Code [Reload, Reloaded: Faster, Leaner Page Reloads in Chrome](https://blog.chromium.org/2017/01/reload-reloaded-faster-and-leaner-page_26.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Chrome now has new page reloading behavior which maximizes the reuse of cached resources and results in lower latency, power consumption, and data usage. [Shift + Reload will still work as before](https://twitter.com/jaffathecake/status/824665704364445697), luckily. Google Jobs [Site Reliability Engineer Zürich, Switzerland](https://www.centralway.com/de/careers/open-positions/details#okWf4fwj) You will have front-to-back engineering and management ownership for our infrastructure (AWS, Firewalls, VPN, Confluence, Splunk, Jenkins..) Centralway Numbrs [Senior JavaScript Developer (Seattle)](https://nordstrom.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?job=270593) Love a challenge? Help us ship the fastest retail experience on the web. We value collaboration, passion for delivery, and work life balance. Nordstrom In brief [IPv6 on AWS Update: Global Support Spanning 15 Regions and Multiple Services](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-ipv6-update-global-support-spanning-15-regions-multiple-aws-services/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Amazon [Details on the New CPU Management Flag in Docker 1.13](https://blog.docker.com/2017/01/cpu-management-docker-1-13/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Michael Crosby [New Research: 2017 State of SaaS Report](http://pages.catchpoint.com/2017-State-of-SaaS-Performance.html) Survey of 140 SaaS IT/Ops reveal the cost of poor performance to providers Catchpointsponsored [Continuous Deployment with AWS, Dokku and CircleCI](https://medium.com/@will123195/continuous-deployment-with-aws-dokku-circleci-999b749151ed?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Will Schmid [Deploying From Bitbucket to WordPress](https://css-tricks.com/deploying-bitbucket-wordpress/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Scott Fennell [Modular and Reusable Java EE Architecture with Docker](https://community.oracle.com/docs/DOC-1008824?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Learn a simple process for using Docker containers to provide all the services a Java EE application requires. Oracle [Using OpenSSL to Create Self-Signed Certificates for HTTPS](http://www.blinkingcaret.com/2017/02/01/using-openssl-to-create-certificates/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Rui Figueiredo [Writing a Cron Job Microservice with Serverless and AWS Lambda](https://blog.readme.io/writing-a-cron-job-microservice-with-serverless-and-aws-lambda/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial ReadMe Blog [How To Create Your Own WiFi 'Captive Portal'](https://andrewwippler.com/2016/03/11/wifi-captive-portal/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial A captive portal prompts for user interaction before allowing a client to access the network. Andrew J Wippler [Practical Scalability Analysis with the Universal Scalability Law](https://www.vividcortex.com/resources/universal-scalability-law/?utm_campaign=WebOps%20Weekly&utm_source=ppc) The Universal Scalability Law models how systems perform as they grow. This ebook shows how to best use it. VividCortexsponsored [7 Ways Google Cloud Hardens Its KVM Hypervisor](https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/01/7-ways-we-harden-our-KVM-hypervisor-at-Google-Cloud-security-in-plaintext.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Google Cloud Platform [Why Progressive JPEGs and HTTP/2 Are BFFs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBPBDJ43qZI&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video Inian Parameshwaran [Making The Most Of Wireshark for Packet Analysis](http://packetpushers.net/podcast/podcasts/show-323-making-most-of-wireshark/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) podcast _“sometimes you just have to go to packet analysis to troubleshoot a problem and uncover an issue”_ Packet Pushers [HTTPS Adoption Has Reached The Tipping Point](https://www.troyhunt.com/https-adoption-has-reached-the-tipping-point/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Troy Hunt [Certified Malice: TLS Certificates Easier To Get But Easier To Misuse](https://textslashplain.com/2017/01/16/certified-malice/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion text/plain [Fission: Serverless Functions as a Service for Kubernetes](http://blog.kubernetes.io/2017/01/fission-serverless-functions-as-service-for-kubernetes.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Fission is a Functions as a Service (FaaS) / Serverless function framework built on Kubernetes. Kubernetes [Service Mocker: An API Mocking Framework for Frontend Developers](https://github.com/service-mocker/service-mocker?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Service Mocker [systemdlogger: Exports systemd Logs to an External Service](https://github.com/techjacker/systemdlogger?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Currently supports Cloudwatch and Elasticsearch. techjacker    [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/101) [See our archives](http://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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