---
title: "Issue 109: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 109
published_at: "2017-03-29"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/109"
---

WebOps Weekly 109   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/109) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 109 — March 29, 2017     

[Modules vs. Microservices](https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/modules-vs-microservices?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Chopping a monolith up into microservices is increasingly common, but this article explores an alternative which promises less operational complexity: _modular_ app development. Sander Mak [Faster Networking & Cheaper Messaging Driving Move to 'Functions'](http://highscalability.com/blog/2017/3/27/faster-networks-cheaper-messages-microservices-functions-edg.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion The faster and more elegant messaging systems which helped the adoption of microservices are now encouraging moves to function-based/serverless approaches, argues Adrian Cockroft. High Scalability [LocalStack: A Local Mock AWS Stack for Testing](https://github.com/atlassian/localstack?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools A set of mocked AWS services (S3, API Gateway, Lambda, and more) for testing your cloud-bound apps locally. Atlassian [Five Things to Monitor After Black Friday and Cyber Monday](https://www.vividcortex.com/resources/five-things-to-monitor-after-black-friday-and-cyber-monday?utm_campaign=WebOps%20Weekly&utm_source=ppc) Baron Schwartz discusses how organizations can monitor their databases wisely well after the holiday rush. VividCortexsponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/fdcb6601.png)](https://www.vividcortex.com/resources/five-things-to-monitor-after-black-friday-and-cyber-monday?utm_campaign=WebOps%20Weekly&utm_source=ppc) [Preload, Prefetch And Priorities in Chrome](https://medium.com/dev-channel/preload-prefetch-and-priorities-in-chrome-776165961bbf?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Addy Osmani digs deep into Chrome’s networking stack to see how features like link preloading and prefetching work to improve Web page loading times. Addy Osmani [Kubernetes 1.6 Released](http://blog.kubernetes.io/2017/03/kubernetes-1.6-multi-user-multi-workloads-at-scale.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools A scaling and automation-focused release that can deploy multiple workloads to multiple users on clusters made up of up to 5000 nodes. Kubernetes [CDNs, HTTP/2, TLS, Browser Caching — A Survey of Modern Web Performance Techniques](https://medium.baqend.com/hosting-lessons-learned-6010992eb257?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial What are the key Web optimizations available right now and what impact can they have? Erik Witt [Can Google's Guetzli JPEG Encoder Help Solve Web Page Bloat?](http://developer.telerik.com/content-types/opinion/can-googles-guetzli-jpeg-encoder-help-solve-web-page-bloat/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Images are the biggest contributor to web page bloat. Brian Rinaldi looks at whether Google’s new Guetzli JPEG encoder can help fix this. Telerik Developer Network [Containers vs. Zones vs. Jails vs. VMs](https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/containers-zones-jails-vms/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial High level opinion with a Lego analogy. It provoked [an extensive discussion](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13982620) on Hacker News. Jessie Frazelle [No SSH Here: Ticketmaster's Take on Containerization](https://thenewstack.io/choke-points-ticketmasters-take-containerization-integration-change/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news A look at Ticketmaster’s ‘top down’ approach of imposing containers, Kubernetes, and using the public cloud upon its developers and ops teams. The New Stack [From Zero to HTTP/2 with AWS and Hugo](https://habd.as/zero-to-http-2-aws-hugo/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Last week we looked at [how Smashing Magazine has moved](https://www.netlify.com/blog/2017/03/16/smashing-magazine-just-got-10x-faster/) to a ‘JAM’ stack, now see how to do the same with AWS and [Hugo](https://gohugo.io/), a high performance static site generator. Josh Habdas 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 AG In brief [Meet Alpine Linux, Docker's Distribution of Choice for Containers](https://thenewstack.io/alpine-linux-heart-docker/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news The New Stack [The Netcraft March 2017 Web Server Survey](https://news.netcraft.com/archives/2017/03/24/march-2017-web-server-survey.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news NGINX the only major server to increase its market share in all four metrics Netcraft [Google Offers Physical Key Authentication to Developers](https://thenewstack.io/three-years-later-google-offers-physical-key-authentication-developers/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news The New Stack [[Live AMA\] Chaos Engineering + DiRT](http://pages.catchpoint.com/AMA-Chaos-DiRT.html?LSD=WebOpsWeekly) news Ask the leaders of Netflix’s Chaos Engineering & Google DiRT anything cloud, distributed systems, & controlled chaos. Catchpointsponsored [NGINX’s New ‘worker_shutdown_timeout’ Directive](https://medium.com/statuscode/nginxs-new-worker-shutdown-timeout-directive-d60f9c1142f8?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Peter Cooper [Using HAProxy for Custom Domains for Users in SaaS Apps](https://zando.io/post/haproxy-saas-custom-domains/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Alex Bowers [Load Balancing AWS Auto Scaling Groups With NGINX Plus](https://dzone.com/articles/load-balancing-aws-auto-scaling-groups-with-nginx?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Michael Pleshakov [How to Dockerize Windows Applications: The 5 Steps](https://blog.sixeyed.com/how-to-dockerize-windows-applications/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Elton Stoneman [Mastering HTTP Caching: Using CDNs as an Easy-To-Use Edge Cache](https://blog.fortrabbit.com/mastering-http-caching?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Ulrich Kautz [Running 1,000 Containers in Docker Swarm](https://blog.codeship.com/running-1000-containers-in-docker-swarm/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Tit Petric [How Discord Indexes Billions of Messages with Elasticsearch](https://blog.discordapp.com/how-discord-indexes-billions-of-messages-e3d5e9be866f?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Discord [Why You Should Be Using Supported PHP Versions](https://kinsta.com/blog/php-versions/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Brian Jackson [Linode Cloud Hosting brings unmatched virtual performance at great prices.](https://welcome.linode.com/webopsweekly/?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=email&utm_term=webops-weekly&utm_campaign=webops-weekly-sponsored) tools Get full root access on any Linux distribution you want for only $10 per month, all with SSD storage included. Linodesponsored [Fly: A Commercial Application-Aware Load Balancer Service](https://fly.io/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Load balancing with end-to-end encryption and smart middleware. Fly [Drool: A Real-Time DNS Replay Tool for Testing](https://medium.com/@dnsoarc/drool-release-1-0-0-beta-2-a-dns-replay-tool-c3f380d3066c?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools For simulating DDoS conditions or to track down unusual bugs. DNS-OARC    [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/109) [See our archives](http://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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