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title: "#125: Amazon's Build Your First Serverless Webapp Guide"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 125
published_at: "2017-07-19"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/125"
---

WebOps Weekly 125   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/125) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](https://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](https://webopsweekly.com) Issue 125 — July 19, 2017     

[Build Your First Serverless Webapp](https://aws.amazon.com/serverless/build-a-web-app/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial A practical five module online workshop from Amazon that focuses on AWS Lambda, unsurprisingly, and covers areas like user management and RESTful APIs. Amazon Web Services [How CircleCI Processes 4.5 Million Builds Per Month](https://stackshare.io/circleci/how-circleci-processes-4-5-million-builds-per-month?ref=reddit&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story They mostly use Clojure along with ClojureScript on the front-end and deploy to Kubernetes-orchestrated Docker containers. They’re also attempting to migrate from MongoDB to Postgres. Rob Zuber [Measuring Web Performance; It’s Really Quite Simple](https://hackernoon.com/measuring-web-performance-its-really-quite-simple-adeda8f7f39e?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Key pointers on how to establish a practical approach to performance, what to measure, and how to set goals. David Gilbertson [Announcing: How to Earn More as a Software Developer](https://simpleprogrammer.com/products/careerguide?utm_source=coopermedia&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=career-guide&utm_content=2017-07-career-guide-launch-webops-weekly) Technical knowledge alone isn't enough—increase your income by leveling up your "soft skills." Learn new skills faster, command more respect, find work you love, and earn what you're worth. Get the book for $0.99 (48 hours only). 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Salvatore Sanfilippo [netdata 1.7: Distributed Real-time Perf and Health Monitoring](https://github.com/firehol/netdata/releases?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools An increasingly powerful open source monitoring solution. With 1.7, it’s now a fully featured _statsd_ server too. See [a live demo here.](http://london.my-netdata.io/) FireHOL [A Comparison of Docker GUIs](https://blog.codeship.com/docker-guis/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Quick overviews of Kitematic, Portainer, Dockstation, Rancher, MicroBadger, Docker Compose UI, and Shipyard. Chris Ward [kubernetes-deploy: CLI Tool for More Detailed Kubernetes Deploys](https://github.com/Shopify/kubernetes-deploy?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools A command-line tool that helps you ship changes to a Kubernetes namespace and understand the result better than `kubectl apply`. Shopify Jobs [Head of Infrastructure and DevOps for a distributed PaaS biz](http://jobs.ably.io/o/head-of-infrastructure-and-devops) We’re a growing realtime platform solving truly complex distributed problems with signficant infrastructure scale. If you enjoy challenging your grey matter, apply. ABLY.​IO [Relax and Let Job Offers Come to You. Sign Up Today on Hired](https://hired.com/join/?utm_source=petercooperpress&utm_medium=sponsor&utm_campaign=%28b2c%29%28l-all%29%28r-swe%29%28q3-17-webops-weekly%29) Save Time on Your Job Search. Hired Delivers Multiple, High-Quality Job Offers To You. Sign Up Today. Hired In brief [With RFC 8200, IPv6 Is Now Truly Standardized](http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/blog/2017/07/rfc-8200-ipv6-has-been-standardized/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Till now it was just defined in a ‘Draft Standard’. Internet Society [Google Container Engine Now Speaks Kubernetes 1.7](https://thenewstack.io/google-container-engine-now-speaks-kubernetes-1-7/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news The New Stack [AWS Launches Next-Gen GPU-Powered 'G3' EC2 Instances](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-next-generation-gpu-powered-ec2-instances-g3/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Amazon Web Services [Microsoft Prepares SQL Server 2017 for Linux and Containers](https://thenewstack.io/sql-server-2017-brings-microsofts-database-linux-container-worlds/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news The New Stack [Attend Google Developer Days — Europe 2017 in Krakow, Poland](https://goo.gl/MRLwWn) news Join us at #GDDEurope, where we will be covering the latest developer updates and best practices. Google, Inc.​ sponsored [Kubernetes Turns 2: A Look at The Numbers From This Past Year](https://coreos.com/blog/kubernetes-turns-two?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news CoreOS [Google Cloud Platform Now Open in London](https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/07/Google-Cloud-Platform-now-open-in-London.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Dave Stiver [Comcast Has Over 1,500 Developers Working on Cloud Foundry](https://thenewstack.io/comcast-1500-developers-working-cloud-foundry/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news The New Stack [A Hand-On Tutorial for Building Kubernetes Initializers](https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-initializer-tutorial?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email#readme) tutorial A new feature in Kubernetes 1.7. Kelsey Hightower [From Microservices to Service Blocks using Spring Cloud Function and AWS Lambda](http://www.kennybastani.com/2017/07/microservices-to-service-blocks-spring-cloud-function-aws-lambda.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Kenny Bastani [DNS Hijacking Risks Are Serious, You Should Take Countermeasures](https://thenewstack.io/risks-dns-hijacking-serious-take-countermeasures/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Lucian Constantin [How to Migrate Your Heroku Postgres Database to Amazon RDS](https://www.lewagon.com/blog/how-to-migrate-your-heroku-postgres-database-to-amazon-rds?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Sébastien Saunier [Tuning NGINX Behind Google Cloud Platform HTTP Load Balancer](https://blog.percy.io/tuning-nginx-behind-google-cloud-platform-http-s-load-balancer-305982ddb340?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Mike Fotinakis [Database Performance Monitoring Buyer’s Guide](https://www.vividcortex.com/resources/database-performance-monitoring-buyers-guide?utm_campaign=WebOps%20Weekly&utm_source=ppc) This guide is designed to aid when evaluating database monitoring solutions for your unique environment. VividCortexsponsored [The New Server Economies Of Scale For AMD](https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/07/13/new-server-economies-scale-amd/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Server manufacturers are excited for AMD’s new EPYC processors. The Next Platform [Behind The Scenes of a Major Infrastructure Company](https://blog.online.net/2017/07/18/behind-the-scene-of-a-major-infrastructure-company/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Online.net is a large hosting and server provider in France. Edouard Bonlieu [7 Web Technologies You Might Not Know Yet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ev8zWpKhzI&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video Including asset integrity attributes and the cache-control header. Robin Drexler [Seashells: Pipe Command Line Output to the Web in Real Time](https://seashells.io/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Anish Athalye    [Read this issue on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/125) [See our archives](https://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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