---
title: "#117: HTTPS on Stack Overflow: The End of a Long Road"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 117
published_at: "2017-05-24"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/117"
---

WebOps Weekly 117   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/117) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](https://webopsweekly.com) Issue 117 — May 24, 2017     

[HTTPS on Stack Overflow: The End of a Long Road](https://nickcraver.com/blog/2017/05/22/https-on-stack-overflow/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story It’s taken years for all of Stack Overflow and its related sites to go full-HTTPS. This post goes into _extreme_ depth on the challenges faced and problems solved along the way. Nick Craver [An Essential Guide to the Serverless Ecosystem](https://techbeacon.com/essential-guide-serverless-ecosystem?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news tutorial A roundup of the key serverless computing platforms, tools and frameworks available. Want more like this? We have a [new serverless-oriented newsletter.](https://serverless.email/):-) Rafal Gancarz [GitHub Marketplace: Third Party Dev Tools, via GitHub](https://github.com/marketplace?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Add tools and services (both free and paid) to projects directly in GitHub. GitHub [Highly available, scalable Redis](http://www.redisgreen.net/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2017b&utm_content=primary&utm_term=ha+scalable) See inside your database with large key detection, memory mapping, auto-scaling and more from RedisGreen. RedisGreensponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/11b0eb62.png)](http://www.redisgreen.net/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2017b&utm_content=primary&utm_term=ha+scalable) [A Look at Facebook's 'One World' Mobile Testing System](https://code.facebook.com/posts/1708075792818517/managing-resources-for-large-scale-testing/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story With a single API, engineers at Facebook can interact with thousands of mobile devices, browsers, and emulators to test new code before it ships. Facebook Code [The Hitchhiker's Video Guide to AWS ECS and Docker](http://start.jcolemorrison.com/the-hitchhikers-video-guide-to-aws-ecs-and-docker/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video A set of ten short (mostly under 10 minutes) videos on hosting, scaling and load balancing an app with AWS ECS and Docker. J Cole Morrison [Moving 65,000 Microsofties to DevOps on the Public Cloud](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7mHOhUQjmU&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video An hour long Q&A focused on how Microsoft has shifted from each division doing its own backend engineering to all using Azure and VSTS. Microsoft [Khan Academy's Memcached-Backed Content Infrastructure](http://engineering.khanacademy.org/posts/memcached-fms.htm?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story A brief look at how the popular education site’s content-serving infrastructure now works and scales. Khan Academy Engineering [FastestWebsiteEver: An Ultrafast Single Packet Site](https://github.com/diracdeltas/FastestWebsiteEver?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code A simple experience delivered in a single packet sent immediately after TCP session init. The site itself is at packet.city. yan In brief [GitHub Moves to GraphQL for its API](https://developer.github.com/v4/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email#github-graphql-api) news _“because it offers significantly more flexibility for our integrators”_ GitHub [Yahoo Retires ImageMagick After Bugs Leak Server Memory](https://threatpost.com/yahoo-retires-imagemagick-after-bugs-leak-server-memory/125862/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news ThreatPost [Google Buys A /12 IPv4 Address Block](http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/blog/2017/05/google-buys-a-12-ipv4-address-block/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Internet Society [An alternative approach to cluster management](https://www.mongodb.com/cloud/atlas/lp/cloud-manager?jmp=&utm_campaign=WW_CP_newsletter_sponsorship_FY17Q2&utm_content=sponsored&utm_medium=&utm_source=webopsweekly0524) Manage any of your MongoDB deployments with a rich (and constantly-developing) API MONGODBsponsored [Mike's Monster List of Docker Tips](https://dev.to/mikesimons/mikes-monster-list-of-docker-tips?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial _“A list of opinions .. from 2.5 years of pretending to know what I’m doing”_ Mike Simons [Using TLS1.3 With OpenSSL](https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2017/05/04/tlsv1.3/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial OpenSSL Foundation, Inc.​ [The Difference Between URLs and URIs](https://danielmiessler.com/study/url-uri/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Daniel Miessler [REST 2.0 Is Here and Its Name Is GraphQL?](https://www.sitepoint.com/rest-2-0-graphql/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial A look at the powerful ‘successor’ to REST for building efficient data-driven applications. Michael Paris [$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 [Container Isolation Gone Wrong: A Troubleshooting Story](https://sysdig.com/blog/container-isolation-gone-wrong-troubleshooting-story/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Gianluca Borello [How Cloudflare Analyzes 1M DNS Queries Per Second](https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-cloudflare-analyzes-1m-dns-queries-per-second/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Cloudflare Blog [Spotting A Million Dollars in Your AWS Account](https://segment.com/blog/spotting-a-million-dollars-in-your-aws-account/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Ideas to help you analyze your AWS spend. Kevin Burke [Serverless and GraphQL: A Perfect Match for the New Cloud Paradigm](https://thenewstack.io/serverless-graphql-perfect-match-new-cloud-paradigm/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Mark Boyd [What Do You Normally Install on Servers to Monitor and Secure Them?](https://lobste.rs/s/t4obld/what_do_you_normally_install_on_your?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion A community discussion. Lobsters [Heroku CI Now Generally Available: Fast, Low Setup CI](https://blog.heroku.com/heroku-ci-now-available?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Heroku [JSON Feed: A JSON-Based Format for Web Feeds](https://jsonfeed.org/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools A proposed format similar to RSS and Atom but in JSON. See [the spec here](https://jsonfeed.org/version/1). Manton Reece and Brent Simmons [LambStatus: A Serverless Status Page System](https://github.com/ks888/LambStatus?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code A server status page system built for use on AWS Lambda. Kishin Yagami [AWS Docker Swarm Setup Using Terraform](https://github.com/monicagangwar/aws_docker_swarm?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Monica Gangwar    [Read this issue on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/117) [See our archives](https://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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