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title: "#113: AWS CodeStar, a New AWS Tool for Quickly Building and Deploying Apps"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 113
published_at: "2017-04-26"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/113"
---

WebOps Weekly 113   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/113) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 113 — April 26, 2017     

[Our Forthcoming Weekly Serverless Newsletter](https://serverless.email/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news If you’re interested in AWS Lambda and other function-as-a-service platforms and paradigms, we have a new newsletter coming soon (edited by IBM’s [Raymond Camden](https://www.raymondcamden.com/)). Cooperpress [AWS CodeStar: Quickly Develop, Build, and Deploy Apps on AWS](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-codestar/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Essentially a ‘wizard’ for provisioning projects and resources on AWS. It currently supports JavaScript, Java, Python, Ruby, and PHP projects. Amazon [RealWorld: A Collection of Front- and Back-End Codebases](https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code See how the exact same real world blogging platform (with the same API) is built using React or Angular on top of Node, Rails, and Django. Thinkster [Catch Errors Before Your Users Do 💻](https://rollbar.com/?utm_source=webops_weekly&utm_campaign=nl_sponsorship&utm_medium=email-nl) With Rollbar, automatically know what’s broken and why. Rollbar detects and alerts you via Slack and HipChat when code breaks. Get stack trace and user data to help you catch errors before your users do. ROLLBARsponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/0884b0c1.png)](https://rollbar.com/?utm_source=webops_weekly&utm_campaign=nl_sponsorship&utm_medium=email-nl) [Going Multi-Cloud with Google Cloud Endpoints and AWS Lambda](https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/04/going-multi-cloud-with-Google-Cloud-Endpoints-and-AWS-Lambda.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Google’s ‘Cloud Endpoints’ makes it easy to build [OpenAPI](https://github.com/OAI/OpenAPI-Specification)-compliant APIs which then assists in cross-cloud setups. This post demonstrates invoking a Cloud Endpoints API from AWS’s ‘serverless’ Lambda platform. Google Cloud Platform [The Security Implications of the Serverless Approach](https://snyk.io/blog/serverless-security-implications-from-infra-to-owasp/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial By eliminating infrastructure management, the serverless approach pushes many security concerns on to the provider, but this doesn’t solve every issue. Guy Podjarny [Linkerd 1.0: A 'Service Mesh' for Cloud-Based Apps](https://blog.buoyant.io/2017/04/25/announcing-linkerd-1.0/index.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools [linkerd](https://linkerd.io/) is a proxy that sits in front of your apps and adds service discovery, routing, failure handling, and more. Oliver Gould [What is 'Site Reliability Engineering' (SRE)?](https://landing.google.com/sre/interview/ben-treynor.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion _“Fundamentally, it’s what happens when you ask a software engineer to design an operations function.”_ Niall Murphy [Migrating from Heroku to AWS: A Story](https://medium.com/adstage-engineering/migrating-from-heroku-to-aws-our-story-80084d31025e?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story We love Heroku, but if you’re running thousands of dynos, other solutions may be more viable. Migrating, however, can be a tricky business. AdStage Engineering [NGINX 1.13.0 Released with TLSv1.3 Support](http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-announce/2017/000195.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news 1.13.0 is the start of a new mainline branch. It adds support for 308 redirects, TLSv1.3, and SSL renegotiation on backend connections. NGINX Jobs [Site Reliability Engineer (Remote)](https://boards.greenhouse.io/voxmedia/jobs/648827?gh_jid=648827&gh_src=m5suqc1#.WPcrzhLyuV4) Work with a dynamic team and be responsible for reliability, scalability, performance, and automation capabilities of our core infrastructure. Vox Media, Inc.​ In brief [Heroku's New Ubuntu 16.04-Based Stack is Now Generally Available](https://blog.heroku.com/heroku-16-is-generally-available?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news It’s a lighter stack that all new Heroku apps will use from May. Heroku [/r/webops: A Sub-Reddit for Web Operations/WebOps](https://www.reddit.com/r/webops/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news If you’re a Reddit fan, check out this new sub-Reddit we’re working on. Reddit [MIT Math Professor Breaks Record for Largest Ever Compute Engine](https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/04/220000-cores-and-counting-MIT-math-professor-breaks-record-for-largest-ever-Compute-Engine-job.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news .. with over 220,000 cores running at once. Google Cloud Platform [Monitor every layer of your web app in real time](https://www.datadoghq.com/lpg/?utm_source=Advertisement&utm_medium=CooperPress&utm_campaign=CooperPress-WebOpsWeekly) Track app performance alongside metrics from your infrastructure. Troubleshoot latency issues with end-to-end tracing. Datadogsponsored [How to Run A Custom LAMP Application on Kubernetes](http://docs.heptio.com/content/tutorials/lamp.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Heptio [Sending Apache Logs to Elasticsearch Service with Kinesis Firehose](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/send-apache-web-logs-to-amazon-elasticsearch-service-with-kinesis-firehose/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Amazon [Stop Guessing Languages Based on IP Address](https://medium.com/@kristopolous/stop-guessing-languages-based-on-ip-address-3862464b97c7?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial There’s better ways to do this already built into HTTP. C.​ McKenzie [A Brief Intro to Certificate Transparency for Server Operators](https://alexgaynor.net/2017/apr/17/certificate-transparency-for-server-operators/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Alex Gaynor [A Tale of Accidentally Spending 100K in 4 Days on AWS](https://www.olindata.com/en/blog/2017/04/spending-100k-usd-45-days-amazon-web-services?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story If your admin AWS credentials end up on GitHub, you won’t have a good time. Walter Heck [Microservices in a High-Load Project: A Detailed Story](https://kukuruku.co/post/microservices-in-a-high-load-project/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Vadim Madison [High-Performance .NET by Example: Filtering Bot Traffic](https://alexandrnikitin.github.io/blog/high-performance-dotnet-by-example/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Alexandr Nikitin [Try Codeship Basic: simple hosted CI that works out of the box](https://codeship.com/features/basic?utm_source=email-sponsorship&utm_medium=cpc-webops-weekly-secondary&utm_campaign=cooper-basic-features-signup-campaign) Get set up with our hosted Continuous Integration service in under 3 minutes. Join thousands of customers like InvisionApp & Whole Foods. Codeshipsponsored [A Look at Docker for Mac 17.04 Performance](https://ezplatform.com/Blog/A-look-at-Docker-for-Mac-17.04-Performance?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion André Rømcke [Docker CEO: Integrating Old Apps Is a Big Deal](https://thenewstack.io/docker-ceo-integrating-old-apps-big-deal/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Docker’s CEO says wrapping older, monolithic apps in containers provides major benefits. The New Stack [cfdns: CLI Tool for Manipulating CloudFlare-Hosted DNS Records](https://github.com/madflojo/cfdns?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Benjamin Cane [What Does My Site Cost To Load?](http://whatdoesmysitecost.com/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Find out how much it costs for someone to use your site on mobile networks around the world. 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