--- title: "Issue 12: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news" publication: "StatusCode Weekly" issue: 12 published_at: "2015-04-29" canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/12" --- WebOps Weekly 12 . The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/12) [![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 12 — April 29, 2015 [Tim Berners-Lee says 'TLS Everywhere, Not 'https' URIs'](http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Security-NotTheS.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) “The HTTPS Everywhere campaign taken at face value completely breaks the web,” says Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web. Tim Berners-Lee [How Users Perceive the Speed of The Web](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ksXo2_Lfl0&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video In a superb keynote at O’Reilly Fluent, Google’s Paul Irish demonstrated how the Google Chrome team repositioned their performance goals in what’s most important to end users, and how you can do the same too. Paul Irish [An HTTP Status Code to Report Legal Obstacles](http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-legally-restricted-status-00?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A proposal for “451 Unavailable for Legal Reasons”. Tim Bray [Realtime cloud status monitoring](https://statusgator.io/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) StatusGator monitors the status pages of 120+ cloud services. Subscribe to the services you depend on and receive alerts via email, Slack, web hooks, and more. Share the status of your dependencies interally with a unified dashboard. StatusGatorsponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/1552973b.png)](https://statusgator.io/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) [NGINX 1.9.0 Released](http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-announce/2015/000157.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) The biggest new feature is a ‘stream’ module for generic TCP proxying and load balancing. NGINX [Caddy: An HTTP/2 Web Server Made for.. Everyone](https://caddyserver.com/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Supports HTTP/2, IPv6, Markdown, WebSockets, FastCGI, templates, reverse proxying, and more, right out of the box. Boasts that it’s easy to use by all types of user. Matt Holt [Need for Speed 2: Improving Front-End Performance](https://jonsuh.com/blog/need-for-speed-2/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Last year Jonathan Suh invested a lot of time in making his site more efficient. Since then he’s redesigned again and now shares even more tips and techniques used. Jonathan Suh [Flywheel: Google's Data Compression Proxy for the Mobile Web](http://research.google.com/pubs/pub43447.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) An academic paper that presents Flywheel, an HTTP proxy service that compresses responses in-flight between origin servers and client browsers. It’s already used by Chrome. Agababov, Buettner, et al.​ [Heroku Introduces Session Affinity Feature](https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2015/4/28/introducing_session_affinity?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Session affinity improves end user experience in certain apps and architectures as it ensures related requests get routed to the same instance of your code. Heroku [More Weight Doesn't Mean More Wait](http://www.filamentgroup.com/lab/weight-wait.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) How delivering a usable version of the page, before heavy assets are downloaded, can improve the user’s “perceived performance.” Scott Jehl Jobs [DevOps Engineer at Smoke & Mirrors (London)](http://www.smoke-mirrors.com/contact/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Experienced with JS-based web-dev for globally distributed internal applications? Qualified in some of *Nix, ES5, ES6, Node, RDF, Git, Puppet, Docker, CentOS, Python, Vsphere, HyperV, ZeroMQ? We need a DevOp to work with us (onsite, office hours, full-time) in our very-Soho offices. Smoke & Mirrors In brief [Automatic Cache Busting for Your CSS](http://blog.risingstack.com/automatic-cache-busting-for-your-css/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Sufian Rhazi [HTTP/2 Chapter from High Performance Browser Networking](http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000545/ch12.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) O'Reilly Media [Notes on Animation Performance in the Browser](https://ada.is/blog/2015/04/26/animation-perf/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Ada Rose Edwards [12 Ways to Improve The Customer Experience for Online Shoppers](http://www.cio.com/article/2914780/e-commerce/12-ways-to-improve-the-customer-experience-for-online-shoppers.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Performance is in the number one spot with navigation close behind. CIO [It's Alive: Apps That Feed Back Accessibly](http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/04/27/its-alive-apps-that-feed-back-accessibly/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Use ARIA live regions to keep users informed of events in a way compatible with assistive technologies. Smashing Magazine [The NoTCP Manifesto](http://notcp.io/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Is it serious? Who knows. notcp.​io [3 Web Design Mistakes That Are Costing Your E-Commerce Site Money](https://nrf.com/news/3-web-design-mistakes-are-costing-your-e-commerce-site-money?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion NRF [Webtask: Run Code with an HTTP Call with No Provisioning](https://webtask.io/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools auth0 [Seastar: An Advanced C++ Framework for High Perf Server Apps](http://www.seastar-project.org/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Cloudius Systems [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/12) [See our archives](http://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*) [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*) Published by [Cooperpress](https://cooperpress.com/) Fairfield Enterprise Centre, Lincoln Way, Louth, LN11 0LS, UK