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title: "#132: The State of the Web and Its Performance"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 132
published_at: "2017-09-06"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/132"
---

WebOps Weekly 132   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/132) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](https://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](https://webopsweekly.com) Issue 132 — September 6, 2017     

[The State of the Web and Its Performance](https://medium.com/@fox/talk-the-state-of-the-web-3e12f8e413b3?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion How can we make the Web better by designing and developing with performance in mind? A look at various ways of making impactful performance improvements. Karolina Szczur [LogDevice: Facebook's Distributed Data Store for Logs](https://code.facebook.com/posts/357056558062811/logdevice-a-distributed-data-store-for-logs/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Facebook needs highly available _and_ durable storage for its logs, and LogDevice is the tool they use for this. They plan to open source it later this year. Facebook Code [How GitHub Keeps An Eye on Its Network](https://githubengineering.com/keeping-an-eye-on-our-network/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story As GitHub’s network has grown, it’s had to improve the the way it collects and analyzes data about it. Ross McFarland [Video — InVision: Why we migrated from Amazon EC2 Instances to MongoDB Atlas](https://www.mongodb.com/presentations/migrating-from-amazon-ec2-instances-to-mongodb-atlas-invision?p=595ec052f6d2bc09e88a7350&jmp=cpress&utm_campaign=WW_CP_newsletter_sponsorship_FY17Q3&utm_content=primary&utm_medium=display&utm_source=webopsweekly0906) Managing MongoDB clusters on Amazon EC2 instances can involve many mundane operational tasks. Using a database as a service handles most of this for you, but where do you get started if you want to migrate to this more managed deployment model? MONGODBsponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/645a71d4.png)](https://www.mongodb.com/presentations/migrating-from-amazon-ec2-instances-to-mongodb-atlas-invision?p=595ec052f6d2bc09e88a7350&jmp=cpress&utm_campaign=WW_CP_newsletter_sponsorship_FY17Q3&utm_content=primary&utm_medium=display&utm_source=webopsweekly0906) [Switching Your Site to HTTPS on a Shoestring Budget](https://css-tricks.com/switching-site-https-shoestring-budget/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Google’s push for HTTPS means front-end developers need to prioritize SSL support more than ever. Here’s an entry-level guide. Christopher Schmitt [Security.txt: For Sites to Publicly Define Security Policies](https://github.com/EdOverflow/security-txt?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools An idea for letting sites provide guidelines for security researchers on how to report security issues, etc. An equivalent of robots.txt, but for security issues. EdOverflow [Thoughts on Monitoring and Observability](https://medium.com/@copyconstruct/monitoring-and-observability-8417d1952e1c?__s=8gscacnizdqaci6z5vso&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Is ‘observability’ just a fancier way of describing ‘monitoring’? It’s complicated. Cindy Sridharan [You Can Now Deploy Docker Images to Heroku](https://devcenter.heroku.com/changelog-items/1255?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Heroku’s [Container Registry](https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/container-registry-and-runtime) has become generally available and it allows you to push Docker-based containers up to Heroku to run. Heroku [On the Future of Networking with Fred Baker](http://packetpushers.net/podcast/podcasts/show-354-future-networking-fred-baker/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) podcast A 50 minute chat with a Cisco Fellow, longtime network engineer and IETF chair on QoS, AQM and IoT. Packet Pushers Jobs [Site Reliability Engineer (London, UK)](https://jobs.lever.co/yelp/5fb956a7-4777-48d2-bc5e-ef49b5a2e300/apply?lever-source=WebOpsWeekly) £50-100k based on exp + equity. Work in the dev and systems world, implementing our core architecture and tackling interesting challenges to serve 100M+ users per month. Yelp [Want to Build The Future? Get 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 [Critical Vulnerability in Apache Struts Puts Many Web Apps at Risk](https://thenewstack.io/critical-vulnerability-apache-struts-puts-thousands-web-applications-risk/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Lucian Constantin [AWS Releases Amazon EC2 Elastic GPUs for Windows](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-ec2-elastic-gpus-for-windows/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Amazon Web Services [It's not CI, it's just CI Theatre](https://www.gocd.io/2017/05/16/its-not-CI-its-CI-theatre/?utm_campaign=ci_theatre&utm_medium=webopsweekly&utm_source=newsletter&utm_content=ci_theatre&utm_term=) tutorial Are you really practicing CI, or is it just an illusion? GOCDsponsored [Leveraging S3 as a CDN in a Modern Webapp Build](https://medium.com/@deanslamajr/a-webpack-built-elastic-beanstalk-deployment-leveraging-aws-s3-as-a-cdn-54d62b851263?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Dean Slama Jr [Optimizing AWS Elastic Beanstalk Costs by Suspending Machines](https://medium.com/@virtser/how-to-save-on-aws-elastic-beanstalk-ec2-machines-by-putting-them-to-sleep-d8533aeb610a?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Basically turning off non-production instances outside of work hours. David Virtser [Failing Fast and Fixing Faster at Vogue](https://www.fastly.com/blog/failing-fast-fixing-faster-vogue?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story video Fastly [Blink and You'll Miss It: Building a Progressive Web App With HTTP2](https://pusher.com/sessions/meetup/bristol-js/blink-and-youll-miss-it-building-a-progressive-web-app-with-http2?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video Dean Hume [This Week in Numbers: Can There Be Too Much DevOps Automation?](https://thenewstack.io/week-numbers-can-much-devops-automation/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Lawrence Hecht [A Compute Pricing Comparison: AWS vs Azure vs Google Cloud](https://www.simform.com/compute-pricing-comparison-aws-azure-googlecloud/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Jignesh Solanki [What is a Distributed Systems Engineer?](https://blog.ably.io/what-is-a-distributed-systems-engineer-f6c1d921acf8?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Matthew O'Riordan [Considerations for CIOs and IT Implementers to Assess Kubernetes](https://thenewstack.io/considerations-cios-implementers-assess-kubernetes/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion The New Stack [Best Practices for Architecting Highly Monitorable Applications](https://www.vividcortex.com/resources/architecting-highly-monitorable-apps?utm_campaign=WebOps%20Weekly&utm_source=ppc&utm_medium=Best%20Practices) Is your application easy to monitor in production? Many applications are, but sadly, some are designed with observability as an afterthought. VividCortexsponsored [Squash: A Tool for Debugging Microservices from VS Code](https://github.com/solo-io/squash?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools solo.​io [Kanali: An Efficient Kubernetes Ingress Controller with API Management Capabilities](https://github.com/northwesternmutual/kanali?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Northwestern Mutual [Vagga: A Containerization Tool Without Daemons](https://github.com/tailhook/vagga?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Full [documentation here](http://vagga.readthedocs.io/en/latest/). Paul Colomiets    [Read this issue on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/132) [See our archives](https://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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