--- title: "Issue 13: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news" publication: "StatusCode Weekly" issue: 13 published_at: "2015-05-06" canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/13" --- WebOps Weekly 13 . The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/13) [![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 13 — May 6, 2015 [Performance Measurement 101: A Beginner's Guide to Understanding Synthetic and Real-User Monitoring](http://www.soasta.com/the-performance-beacon/synthetic-real-user-measurement-monitoring-rum/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Real user measurement (RUM) is a type of passive monitoring that ‘listens’ to events as users navigate through your site, but how does it work and what can it tell you? Lots of good insights here. Tammy Everts [Sitespeed: An Open Source Web Performance Dashboard](http://www.peterhedenskog.com/blog/2015/04/open-source-performance-dashboard/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A Docker-based, customizable site metrics dashboard system. You run three Docker images, one with Graphite, one with Grafana, and one with Sitespeed itself. Peter Hedenskog [Mozilla 'Deprecating' Non-Secure HTTP](https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2015/04/30/deprecating-non-secure-http/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) “Mozilla is committing to focus new development efforts on the secure web, and start removing capabilities from the non-secure web.” Mozilla Security Blog [OpsCast: Delivering Great User Experiences in China](http://pages.catchpoint.com/OpsCast-Delivering-to-China.html?LSD=SPON-WebOpsWeekly&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) The Internet landscape in China can be difficult to navigate and providing your users a solid experience is a major feat for most companies. Catchpoint and ChinaCache have partnered for this month’s OpsCast, a monthly webinar dedicated to web performance, to demonstrate how you can avoid the obstacles your site faces in China in order to ensure optimal performance. _Delivering Great User Experiences in China_ will give you the tools you need to build effective performance strategies, like using monitoring to combat issues such as slow page speed. [Register today!](http://pages.catchpoint.com/OpsCast-Delivering-to-China.html?LSD=SPON-WebOpsWeekly) CatchPointsponsored[![\](http://s3.amazonaws.com/nlga/uploads/item/image/36975/i.png)](http://pages.catchpoint.com/OpsCast-Delivering-to-China.html?LSD=SPON-WebOpsWeekly&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) [The Ultimate Web Speed Geek Quiz Challenge](http://www.webspeedgeek.com/quiz/content/home.aspx?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Answer the most questions in the quickest time to win. It’s pretty hard. Twenty web performance related questions in under a minute. Catchpoint Systems [The Akamai State of the Internet Report](http://www.akamai.com/stateoftheinternet/index.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) It’s behind a registration wall, but covers things like levels of readiness in various countries for 4K video streaming, country-level mobile connectivity speeds, broadband adoption rates, etc. Or see [the summary PDF here.](http://www.akamai.com/dl/soti/q4-2014-executive-summary-a4.pdf) _(Trivia: Belgium is way in the lead with IPv6 adoption.)_ Akamai [Azure Stack, It's Not Windows Server](http://thenewstack.io/azure-stack-its-not-windows-server/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Microsoft has unveiled ‘Azure Stack’, its private cloud infrastructure solution “for datacenters that want to be Azures in their own right.” The New Stack [Google Shutting Down PageSpeed Service](https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/service/Deprecation?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) The PageSpeed Service helped your sites load more quickly by providing a proxy that automatically applied performance improvements. Google Jobs [Site Reliability Engineer at trivago](http://www.trivago.com/jobs/details/938-site-reliability-engineer?cip=99060001012483&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) We are looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to join the world’s largest hotel search and ensure a reliable, fault-tolerant production environment. If PHP is your mother tongue language, we should talk. trivago In brief [Heroku Introduces 'heroku docker:release' to Build & Deploy Apps with Docker](https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2015/5/5/introducing_heroku_docker_release_build_deploy_heroku_apps_with_docker?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Heroku [It's Official: Google Says More Searches Now On Mobile Than On Desktop](http://searchengineland.com/its-official-google-says-more-searches-now-on-mobile-than-on-desktop-220369?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Search Engine Land [About Applebot: Apple's Web Crawler](https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204683?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Nothing exciting but worth knowing about if you see it in your logs. Apple [British Retail Websites Are Still Sluggish](http://www.retailtechnology.co.uk/news/5681/british-retail-websites-are-still-sluggish/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Retail Technology [The curl and libcurl 2015 Survey](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1uQNYfTmRwF9RX5-oq_HV4VyeT1j7cxXpuBIp8uy5nqQ/viewform?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Ever use curl? Its creators want to ask you some questions to help them continue work on it. google.​com [Dynamically Generated Certificates with NGINX](http://blog.dutchcoders.io/openresty-with-dynamic-generated-certificates/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Remco [Apache vs Nginx, PHP vs HHVM? Test It Yourself with Ansible](https://lamosty.com/2015/05/apache-nginx-php-hhvm-test-it-yourself-ansible/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Rastislav Lamos [An Introduction to JavaScript-Based DDoS](https://blog.cloudflare.com/an-introduction-to-javascript-based-ddos/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial CloudFlare [Securing Heroku Apps](http://blog.conjur.net/securing-heroku-apps?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Dustin Collins [Varnish Goes Upstack with Varnish Modules and Varnish Configuration Language](http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/5/6/varnish-goes-upstack-with-varnish-modules-and-varnish-config.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) High Scalability [Fuzzing Nginx: Hunting Vulnerabilities with afl-fuzz](https://lolware.net/2015/04/28/nginx-fuzzing.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) The interesting part is that after 48 hours of throwing random data at nginx, there have been no crashes. lolware [A Look At The FIFA 2014 World Cup's Live Streaming Architecture](http://leandromoreira.com.br/2015/04/26/fifa-2014-world-cup-live-stream-architecture/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Leandro Moreira [Scala vs. Node.js As A RESTful Backend Server](http://developerblog.redhat.com/2015/04/22/scala-vs-node-js-as-a-restful-backend-server/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Red Hat Developer Blog [The Most Annoying Issues That Will Kill Your Website Performance](http://usersnap.com/blog/annoying-issues-will-kill-website-performance/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Usersnap [Uploading to S3 in 18 Lines of Shell](https://gist.github.com/chrismdp/6c6b6c825b07f680e710?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Chris Parsons [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/13) [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