---
title: "Issue 103: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 103
published_at: "2017-02-15"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/103"
---

WebOps Weekly 103   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/103) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 103 — February 15, 2017     

[Amazon EBS Gets 'Elastic Volumes' That Can Be Resized While In Use](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-ebs-update-new-elastic-volumes-change-everything/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Big news for EBS users with a new ‘elastic’ volume feature allowing volumes to be grown, shrunk, and adjusted in other ways while still in use. _(BTW, we're launching an AWS newsletter soon, [register your interest here.](https://cooperpress.typeform.com/to/G3Hch0)_) Amazon Web Services [An NGINX Config for 2017](https://certsimple.com/blog/nginx-http2-load-balancing-config?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial With HTTP/2 in every browser, load balancing with automatic failover, IPv6, a sorry page, separate blog server (using proxying), HTML5 SSE and an A+ SSL Labs rating. Mike MacCana [A Look at Instapaper's Outage Cause and Recovery Process](https://medium.com/making-instapaper/instapaper-outage-cause-recovery-3c32a7e9cc5f?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Bookmarking service Instapaper experienced a 30 hour outage. Here’s the story of how their MySQL database failed, why, and how it was resolved. Brian Donohue [Finally Available: Using ES6 and React with Brian Holt](https://forwardcourses.com/workshops/6) Netflix's Brian Holt returns to teach a full-day workshop on ES6 and React. React eschews the traditional MVC architecture, a counter-intuitive approach Brian explains along with JSX, React best practices, and the React component lifecycle. Forward Coursessponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/fd433f73.png)](https://forwardcourses.com/workshops/6) [Autotrack: Enhanced Google Analytics Tracking](https://github.com/googleanalytics/autotrack?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code By default, Google Analytics tracks pageviews, but there are many other common on-page events that can be tracked (form submits, scrolling, page visibility). Autotrack makes this easier to do. Google [Using HTTP/2 Responsibly: Adapting for Users](http://alistapart.com/article/using-http-2-responsibly-adapting-for-users?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Part one of a two-part series exploring HTTP/2 and using it responsibly. [Part two here](http://alistapart.com/article/considering-how-we-use-http2). Jeremy Wagner [Practical Scaling Techniques for Web Sites](https://hackernoon.com/practical-scaling-techniques-for-web-sites-554a38dbd492?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Several tips on using asynchronous queues, proper database use, and caching to capture low-hanging performance fruit. Adam Derewecki [Zero to HTTP/2 with AWS and Hugo](https://habd.as/zero-to-http-2-aws-hugo/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Learn how to go from Zero to HTTP/2 with AWS and Hugo, _“the fastest static site generator in existence”_. Josh Habdas [Building A Serverless App with A Serverless Database](https://fauna.com/blog/serverless-cloud-database?yc=&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) FaunaDB claims to be ‘the first truly serverless database.’ An odd claim, but this will help you see how it works. Fauna 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 Ops and Data Platform Engineers at FreeAgent (Edinburgh or remote UK)](https://www.freeagent.com/careers) Want to work on a high-traffic, popular web app? Come and talk to us about Ruby, SmartOS, MySQL, Kafka or burritos. FreeAgent In brief [Linode Unveils High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes](https://blog.linode.com/2017/02/14/high-memory-instances-and-5-linodes/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Linode [DigitalOcean Introduces Load Balancer Option](https://www.digitalocean.com/products/load-balancer/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Can be controlled via an API and attract no extra bandwidth charges. DigitalOcean [Introducing Docker Secrets Management](https://blog.docker.com/2017/02/docker-secrets-management/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Docker [How do HTTP cache control headers work?](https://www.sitespeedbootcamp.com/?utm_source=WebOps&utm_campaign=Q1_2017&utm_medium=sponsored_link) HTTP contains cache control headers that can be used to define the freshness of a resource. Find out how to fine tune headers to keep content fresh. Incapsulasponsored [The Google Analytics Setup I Use on Every Site I Build](https://philipwalton.com/articles/the-google-analytics-setup-i-use-on-every-site-i-build/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Philip Walton [Moving to HTTPS - Migrate From HTTP to HTTPS with Ease](https://movingtohttps.com/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial A community site aimed at helping site owners migrate to HTTPS with simple, tested processes. movingtohttps.​com [Kubernetes Fundamentals: The High Level Concepts](http://www.monkeylittle.com/blog/2017/02/06/kubernetes-fundamentals.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial John Turner [Multiple HTTPS Domains on the Same Server with Let's Encrypt and Nginx](https://blog.benroux.me/running-multiple-https-domains-from-the-same-server/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Ascent [How Evernote Moved 3 Petabytes of Data to Google's Cloud](http://www.pcworld.com/article/3167594/data-center-cloud/heres-how-evernote-moved-3-petabytes-of-data-to-googles-cloud.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story PC World [How Operable Built its ChatOps Cog Platform on Docker Images](https://thenewstack.io/operable-built-chatops-cog-platform-docker-images/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story The New Stack [Scaling Rails Through 650 Million Requests in 5 Days](https://unboxed.co/blog/scaling-rails-through-650-million-requests-in-5-days-the-donald-trump-state-visit-petition/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story The UK Parliament’s [petitions site](https://petition.parliament.uk/) during an anti-Trump petition drive, in particular. Andrew White [Honest Status Reporting and AWS Service Status “Truth” in a Post-Truth World](https://blog.ably.io/honest-status-reporting-and-aws-service-status-truth-in-a-post-truth-world-8b9a31c8cc90?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email#.l2b1gyeg8) opinion Are AWS status reports misleading? Matthew O'Riordan [Ask HN: How Do You Deploy Your Webapps?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13540952&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Over 100 Hacker News threads with a variety of ideas and approaches. Hacker News [DreamFactory Open Source REST API platform](https://www.dreamfactory.com/signup?utm_campaign=signup-02-15-17&utm_content=webopsweekly&utm_medium=external-cooper&utm_source=email&utm_term=webops) tools DreamFactory turns your database into a comprehensive REST API. Free and open source, [try it now.](https://www.dreamfactory.com/signup?utm_campaign=signup-02-15-17&utm_content=webopsweekly&utm_medium=external-cooper&utm_source=email&utm_term=webops) DreamFactorysponsored [awless: A New Command Line Interface for Managing AWS](https://github.com/wallix/awless?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Wallix [wuzz: Interactive CLI Tool for HTTP Inspection Written in Go](https://github.com/asciimoo/wuzz?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Adam Tauber    [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/103) [See our archives](http://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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