---
title: "#116: Debugging Under Fire and Keeping Your Head When Your Systems Have Lost Theirs"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 116
published_at: "2017-05-17"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/116"
---

WebOps Weekly 116   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/116) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](https://webopsweekly.com) Issue 116 — May 17, 2017     

[A Guide to Kubernetes Clusters for the Hobbyist](https://github.com/hobby-kube/guide?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial How to setup and operate a fully functional, secure Kubernetes cluster on a cloud provider such as DigitalOcean or Scaleway. Hobby Kube [Debugging Under Fire: Keeping Your Head When Systems Have Lost Theirs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30jNsCVLpAE&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video An engaging talk addressing the art of debugging during an outage from the technical challenges and techniques through to the psychological and organizational elements involved. [Slides.](https://conf-assets.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/uploads/slides/conference_3/86/original/goto-ord-170502172018.pdf) _(52 minutes)_ Bryan Cantrill [Gixy: An NGINX Configuration Static Analyzer](https://github.com/yandex/gixy?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools A tool for analyzing your NGINX config files for security flaws and vulnerabilities. Yandex [Want More Insight Into Errors Than New Relic? ✅](https://rollbar.com/webopsweekly) See how Rollbar pairs perfectly with New Relic to give you greater coverage + much more insight into application errors. ROLLBARsponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/ef8773ce.png)](https://rollbar.com/webopsweekly) [What Is DevOps?](https://thenewstack.io/what-is-devops/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news _“There is no consensus in the industry regarding the definition of DevOps,”_ says the author before elaborating on one himself. Ritesh Modi [How Yelp Runs Millions of Tests Every Day](https://engineeringblog.yelp.com/2017/04/how-yelp-runs-millions-of-tests-every-day.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story _“We run more than 20 million tests every day using our in-house distributed system.”_ And here’s how. Yelp Engineering [How Buzzfeed Helps Its Engineers 'Deploy with Haste'](https://tech.buzzfeed.com/deploy-with-haste-the-story-of-rig-ca9a58b5719a?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story A tale of infrastructure evolution at Buzzfeed, the online publisher. Their in-house ‘rig’ system makes 100+ deploys a day practical. BuzzFeed Tech [Scaling Git at Microsoft](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_MPGU_m01s&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video How Microsoft is using git internally, with a specific focus on large repositories. Saeed Noursalehi [Google's 'Cloud Spanner' Is Now Production Ready](https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/05/Cloud-Spanner-is-now-production-ready-let-the-migrations-begin.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools A globally-distributed relational database service with ACID transactions and SQL semantics. [WIRED’s writeup](https://dbweekly.com/link/2720/web) (from Feburary) gives the bigger picture of why it’s a big deal. Google Cloud Platform Blog [Is Serverless The New Visual Basic?](http://highscalability.com/blog/2017/5/15/is-serverless-the-new-visual-basic.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion A line of thinking that serverless apps may be built by less experienced but less dogmatic developers. _(Psst! The [latest issue of our new Serverless newsletter](https://serverless.email/issues/2) is here.)_ High Scalability [Optimizing Memcached Efficiency at Quora](https://engineering.quora.com/Optimizing-Memcached-Efficiency?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Quora uses memcached heavily to speed up operations and has just released a new tool called [mcinspector](https://github.com/quora/mcinspector) for analyzing its memory use. Siyuan Fu [How A Startup's Firebase Bill Leapt Up Unexpectedly](https://medium.com/@contact_16315/firebase-costs-increased-by-7-000-81dc0a27271d?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial A home automation startup has run into issues after a seemingly minor change on Google’s Firebase affected how bandwidth was counted. Medium In brief [Microsoft Unveils Azure Cosmos DB, A New Multi-Model DB](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/introduction?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Microsoft [Microsoft Brings Container Orchestration to Azure Service Fabric](https://thenewstack.io/understanding-azure-container-service-azure-service-fabric/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news The New Stack [$20 Free Credit on a new account.](https://welcome.linode.com/webopsweekly/?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=email&utm_term=webops-weekly&utm_campaign=webops-weekly-sponsored) Linux cloud hosting starting at 1GB of RAM for $5/mo. Use promo code `WEBOPS20` and get $20 credit. linodesponsored [Load Balancing HTTPS with Let's Encrypt and HAProxy](https://fly.io/articles/load-balancing-https-with-lets-encrypt/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Evan Larsson [Everything You Need to Know About HTTP Security Headers](https://blog.appcanary.com/2017/http-security-headers.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Appcanary [Creating a Serverless REST API with the 'Serverless' Framework](http://blog.codeship.com/a-serverless-rest-api-in-minutes/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Austen Collins [How to Build A Modern CI/CD Pipeline](https://medium.com/bettercode/how-to-build-a-modern-ci-cd-pipeline-5faa01891a5b?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Using Travis CI, GitHub, Better Code Hub, Docker, and Heroku. Rob van der Leek [Going for Go and Sticking with SQL](https://blog.poki.com/going-for-go-and-sticking-with-sql-a30faa42d643?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Why Poki is ditching PHP for Go but staying with MySQL over NoSQL. Poki Engineering [How Does Docker Affect Energy Consumption?](https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.01176?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Evaluating workloads in and out of Docker containers. An academic paper. Santos, McLean, Solinas, and Hindle [Under the Hood with Docker Swarm Mode](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw4ImA2IB10&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video DockerCon 17 [The Case for Containerizing Middleware](https://thenewstack.io/case-containerizing-middleware/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion The New Stack [Security Debt is an Engineer's Problem](https://thenewstack.io/security-engineers-problem/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion The New Stack [Investigate bottlenecks in your web apps](https://www.datadoghq.com/lpg/?utm_source=Advertisement&utm_medium=CooperPress&utm_campaign=CooperPress-WebOpsWeekly) tools Troubleshoot latency issues with end-to-end tracing, and alert on key metrics from 150+ components of your stack. Datadogsponsored [Toxiproxy: A Framework for Simulating Network Conditions](https://github.com/Shopify/toxiproxy?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools A TCP proxy to simulate network conditions for chaos and resiliency testing. Shopify [Fission: Serverless Functions for Kubernetes](http://fission.io/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Deploy functions instantly with one command with no containers to build. Platform9 Systems    [Read this issue on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/116) [See our archives](https://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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