---
title: "Issue 107: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 107
published_at: "2017-03-15"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/107"
---

WebOps Weekly 107   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/107) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 107 — March 15, 2017     

[The Million Dollar Engineering Problem](https://segment.com/blog/the-million-dollar-eng-problem/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Outsourcing infrastructure is so easy and instant now, it’s easy to run up huge monthly bills when scaling. Here’s how one startup scaled its AWS costs down $1M per year. Segment [The Google Cloud Platform Takes Big Steps Forward](https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/03/Google-Cloud-Platform-your-Next-home-in-the-cloud.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news App Engine now supports Node.js, Ruby, Java 8, Python 2.7 or 3.5, Go 1.8, plus PHP 7.1 and .NET Core. Google Cloud Functions, a serverless platform, is now also in public beta. Google Cloud Platform Blog [GitLab on Why It's Now Not Leaving The Cloud](https://about.gitlab.com/2017/03/02/why-we-are-not-leaving-the-cloud/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Back in November, [GitLab said they were heading for bare metal](https://about.gitlab.com/2016/11/10/why-choose-bare-metal/) but now, they’ve realized they need to stay in the cloud. Here’s the story and why. GitLab [Having SSD storage and a strong network is imperative for your next cloud host](https://welcome.linode.com/webopsweekly/?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=email&utm_term=webops-weekly&utm_campaign=webops-weekly-primary) See the power of Linode and run any distribution you want on our superb hardware. With a free $20 offer, you'll have plenty of time to see what you can do with the power of Linode. linodesponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/d59ee86b.png)](https://welcome.linode.com/webopsweekly/?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=email&utm_term=webops-weekly&utm_campaign=webops-weekly-primary) [Detecting Bots in Apache and NGINX Logs](http://tech.marksblogg.com/detect-bots-apache-nginx-logs.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial The basics of building an IPv4 ownership and browser string-based bot detection script so you can split out potentially automated requests. Mark Litwintschik [Amazon S3 Issuing Refunds for February's Downtime?](https://twitter.com/wesbos/status/841678643386556417?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Wes Bos notes that he got a 10% refund on February’s S3 bill via AWS’s SLA. [Other evidence here.](http://imgur.com/a/mhscH) Your mileage may vary, but you might as well ask. Wes Bos on Twitter [flAWS: Learn About Common AWS Mistakes and Gotchas](http://flaws.cloud/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Through a series of levels you’ll learn about common mistakes and gotchas when using Amazon Web Services. Scott Piper [Driving User Growth with Performance Improvements](https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering/driving-user-growth-with-performance-improvements-cfc50dafadd7?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story After Pinterest proved improving landing page performance increased signups with a hacky prototype, it set about baking in high performance from the ground up in 2016. Pinterest [Cross-Origin Resource Sharing — A Guided Tour](https://medium.com/statuscode/cors-a-guided-tour-4e72230a8739?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial A look at the same-origin Policy and how you can use CORS to allow cross-origin requests when required. Martin Splitt Jobs [Site Reliability Engineer (f/m) (Berlin)](http://www.wimdujobs.de/) Wimdu are looking for an Engineer with 3+ years experience to help define a solid strategy for ensuring future growth of our platform. Wimdu In brief [Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances Now Offer Instance Size Flexibility](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/03/amazon-ec2-reserved-instances-now-offer-instance-size-flexibility-helping-you-reduce-your-ec2-bill/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Amazon Web Services [Tickets Available for DotScale 2017, A European Scalability Conference](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dotscale-2017-tickets-24775377822?discount=WEBOPSWEEKLY&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Use code ‘WEBOPSWEEKLY’ for 20% off _(we get nothing for this, just a nice offer)_. dotScale ['24% of Latest Docker Images Have Significant Vulnerabilities'](https://www.federacy.com/docker_image_vulnerabilities?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news James Sulinski [How does TTL keep content fresh?](https://www.sitespeedbootcamp.com/?utm_source=WebOps&utm_campaign=Q1_2017&utm_medium=sponsored_link) Stale content refers to content that is served to a user when the time to live (TTL) expires. Find out how TTL can help keep content fresh for your website needs. Incapsulasponsored [Sending Real-Time Notifications from systemd to Slack](https://www.scaledrone.com/blog/posts/real-time-notifications-from-systemd-to-slack?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Scaledrone [Repartitioning Linux Servers](https://www.sharphosting.uk/articles/repartitioning-linode-linux-servers?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Nigel Peck [Improving Linux System Performance with I/O Scheduler Tuning](https://blog.codeship.com/linux-io-scheduler-tuning/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Ben Cane [16 Linux Server Monitoring Commands You Really Need to Know](https://insights.hpe.com/articles/16-linux-server-monitoring-commands-you-really-need-to-know-1703.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Steven Vaughan-Nichols [Spammers Expose Their Entire Operation Through Bad Backups](http://www.csoonline.com/article/3176433/security/spammers-expose-their-entire-operation-through-bad-backups.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Steve Ragan [The Physics of Fast Image Compression](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPMzw_ZuAIE&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video Tobin Titus [IT Automation Best Practices for Network Engineers and Architects](https://thenewstack.io/automation-best-practices-network-engineers-architects/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion _“automated approaches are sure to bring unmatched flexibility and scalability to the enterprise.”_ The New Stack [10 Most Common Reasons Kubernetes Deployments Fail](https://kukulinski.com/10-most-common-reasons-kubernetes-deployments-fail-part-1/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Ross Kukulinski [JWT (JSON Web Tokens) is a Bad Standard That Everyone Should Avoid](https://paragonie.com/blog/2017/03/jwt-json-web-tokens-is-bad-standard-that-everyone-should-avoid?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Scott Arciszewski [Trusted Overlord: AWS Trusted Advisor and AWS Health Notification Aggregator](https://github.com/beeva/trusted-overlord?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Tired of navigating for dozens of AWS Web Consoles to check your accounts’ statuses? BEEVA [DreamFactory Open Source REST API platform](https://www.dreamfactory.com/signup?utm_campaign=Signup-03-15-17&utm_source=email&utm_medium=external-cooper&utm_term=webopsweekly&utm_content=Web-ops-Weekly-03-15-17) 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-03-15-17=email=external-cooper=webopsweekly=Web-ops-Weekly-03-15-17)! DreamFactorysponsored [GraphQL Voyager: Represent Any GraphQL API as an Interactive Graph](https://github.com/APIs-guru/graphql-voyager?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools APIs-guru [ctop: Concise Commandline Monitoring for Containers](https://bcicen.github.io/ctop/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Bradley Cicenas [ipify: A Simple Public IP Address API](https://www.ipify.org/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Randall Degges    [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/107) [See our archives](http://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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