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title: "#131: IPv6 vs IPv4 Performance Revisited"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 131
published_at: "2017-08-30"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/131"
---

WebOps Weekly 131   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/131) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](https://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](https://webopsweekly.com) Issue 131 — August 30, 2017     

[A Comparison of Linux Container Images](http://crunchtools.com/comparison-linux-container-images/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial A thorough ‘compare and contrast’ of different approaches taken by Linux distributions commonly used in container images. Scott McCarty [The Right Way to Manage Secrets with AWS](https://segment.com/blog/the-right-way-to-manage-secrets/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Running infrastructure on AWS? Here’s a thorough guide to using Parameter Store to manage your secrets in production. Evan Johnson [IPv6 vs IPv4 Performance Revisited](https://blog.apnic.net/2016/08/22/ipv6-performance-revisited/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story APNIC Labs has [a new tool](http://stats.labs.apnic.net/v6perf) that can show the performance of IPv6 relative to IPv4 at both a country-by-country and network-by-network level. Geoff Huston [Automate your application operations with Codeship and Appranix](https://documentation.codeship.com/general/integrations/appranix/?utm_source=email-sponsorship&utm_medium=cpc-webops-weekly-primary&utm_campaign=cooper-appranix-codeship) Appranix lets you simplify application operations on cloud platforms. Learn how to integrate it with Codeship Pro & Codeship Basic. Codeshipsponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/af10b027.png)](https://documentation.codeship.com/general/integrations/appranix/?utm_source=email-sponsorship&utm_medium=cpc-webops-weekly-primary&utm_campaign=cooper-appranix-codeship) [How Uploadcare Built A Stack That Handles 350M File API Requests Per Day](https://stackshare.io/uploadcare/how-uploadcare-built-a-stack-that-handles-350m-file-api-requests-per-day?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Their CTO explains the challenges faced in scaling each layer of their Python-based stack. Dmitry Mukhin [Goby: A New Language For Building Microservices](https://sample.goby-lang.org/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code It’s a Ruby and Go-inspired language which runs on a Go VM. [GitHub repo](https://github.com/goby-lang/goby) has more info. Stan Lo [2017 Hard Drive Reliability By Manufacturer and Model](https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-failure-stats-q2-2017/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Backblaze, a _very_ heavy user of hard drives, is back with their Q2 2017 failure stats. Always interesting and worth a check if you’re buying drives. Backblaze [Moving The NY Times Games Platform to Google App Engine](https://open.nytimes.com/moving-the-new-york-times-games-platform-to-google-app-engine-e9337f2c9444?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story The digital version of the New York Times crossword gets a huge amount of traffic. They moved it to Google App Engine, but why? Times Open Jobs [DevOps engineer (Ruby, Go, distributed system) [remote\]](http://jobs.ably.io/o/devops-engineer-remote--onsite) We’re a growing realtime platform solving truly complex distributed problems with significant infrastructure scale. If you enjoy challenging your grey matter, apply. ABLY.​IO [Finding a Job Shouldn't Feel like Work. Try Hired Today.](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 [Multiple Vulnerabilities in RubyGems](https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2017/08/29/multiple-vulnerabilities-in-rubygems/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Using Ruby? There’s an upgrade you need to do. ruby-lang [Google Introduces 'App Engine Firewall'](http://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/08/introducing-App-Engine-firewall-an-easy-way-to-control-access-to-your-app.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Lorne Kligerman [VMware Announces Cloud Platform Built on AWS, and More](https://thenewstack.io/vmware-consolidates-cloud-platform-around-amazon-applications/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news The New Stack [NGINX Now Most Used Web Server Amongst Top 1 Million Sites](https://w3techs.com/technologies/cross/web_server/ranking?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news W3Techs [NGINX Releases NGINX Plus R13](https://www.nginx.com/blog/nginx-plus-r13-released/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news The commercial version of NGINX includes a new API mechanism and HTTP request mirroring. NGINX [New Pulse Wave DDoS Assaults Allow Attackers to Maximize Resources](https://www.incapsula.com/blog/pulse-wave-ddos-pins-down-multiple-targets.html?utm_source=webops&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=sponsored%20link) There’s a new type of DDoS attack that consists of a series of short bursts in rapid succession - “pulse wave” attacks. Imperva Incapsulasponsored [Serverless Analytics with Amazon Kinesis and AWS Lambda](https://sbstjn.com/serverless-analytics-with-kinesis-stream-lambda.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Run your own serverless analytics system with Amazon Kinesis and AWS Lambda functions. Sebastian Müller [7 Docker Security Vulnerabilities and Threats](https://sysdig.com/blog/7-docker-security-vulnerabilities/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Mateo Burillo [Building a 'Trashcan Reminder' Alexa Skill with AWS Lambda & Kotlin](https://www.twilio.com/blog/2017/08/how-i-built-a-bin-colour-reminder-alexa-skill-using-aws-lambda-and-kotlin.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Marcos Placona [How Edgemesh Rolled Out Its P2P Web Acceleration Service to Production](https://www.infoq.com/news/2017/08/edgemesh-production-rollout?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story InfoQ [The WireX Botnet: How Industry Collaboration Disrupted a DDoS Attack](https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-wirex-botnet/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Cloudflare [How to Run a Front-End Infrastructure Team](http://tech.adroll.com/blog/frontend/2017/08/29/how-to-run-a-front-end-infrastructure-team.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion The human aspects of collaborative front-end projects. Jyri Tuulos [ZEIT or Hyper: A New Heroku Emerging?](http://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2017/07/31/%E2%96%B2zeit-or-hyper-a-new-heroku-emerging/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion James Governor [Is Kubernetes Overkill?](http://blog.reactiveops.com/is-kubernetes-overkill?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Matt Rogish [$20 Free on a new Linode 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. Linode Cloud Hostingsponsored [Introducing SKA - SSH Key Authority](https://dev.opera.com/articles/introducing-ska-ssh-key-authority/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools SKA is an open-source access control system for SSH-based servers. [Repo here](https://github.com/operasoftware/ssh-key-authority). Opera Software [ezpaas-cli: A Mini Docker-Powered Heroku Clone](https://github.com/TENDIGI/ezpaas-cli?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools ..for in-house deployments. It’s a work in progress but the author assures me it’s ripe for testing. TENDIGI [NVIDIA Docker: Build and Run Docker Containers Leveraging NVIDIA GPUs](https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-docker?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code NVIDIA Corporation    [Read this issue on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/131) [See our archives](https://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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