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title: "#133: Optimizing Web Servers for High Throughput and Low\u00a0Latency"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 133
published_at: "2017-09-13"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/133"
---

WebOps Weekly 133   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/133) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](https://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](https://webopsweekly.com) Issue 133 — September 13, 2017     

[NGINX Unit: A New Open Source Application Server](https://www.nginx.com/products/nginx-unit/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Currently in beta and supporting Go, PHP and Python, Unit is a lightweight app server designed for demanding dynamic/distributed apps. NGINX [Why You Should Have a CAA DNS Record for Your HTTPS Site](https://thenewstack.io/heres-caa-dns-record-https-website/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news All certificate authorities now have to honor a Domain Name System record that allows HTTPS website owners to restrict who can issue SSL certificates for their domain names. Lucian Constantin [10 Ways to make your AWS more secure](https://www.sqreen.io/resources/aws-security) Improve the security of your infrastructure by following these ten security best practices for your AWS infra. Learn how to enforce security settings, rotate your AWS keys, use a private VPC, enable CloudTrail and more. Sqreensponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/bc341141.png)](https://www.sqreen.io/resources/aws-security) [Optimizing Web Servers for High Throughput and Low Latency](https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2017/09/optimizing-web-servers-for-high-throughput-and-low-latency/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story An engineer at Dropbox goes into depth on the efficiency/performance optimizations of different layers of their stack. Alexey Ivanov [7 Helpful HTTP Tools Worth Knowing About](https://nordicapis.com/7-helpful-http-tools/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools A review of some HTTP CLIs & GUI clients like cURL, http-console, HTTPpie, and http-prompt. Kristopher Sandoval [How to Hurricane-Proof a Web Server](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/09/how-to-hurricane-proof-a-web-server/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story A look at a configuration that enabled Space City Weather to weather Hurricane Harvey. Important things to consider as weather becomes more dramatic. Lee Hutchinson [A Look at Amazon's New 'Network Load Balancer'](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-network-load-balancer-effortless-scaling-to-millions-of-requests-per-second/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news It’s designed to handle tens of millions of requests per second while maintaining high throughput at ultra low latency. Jeff Barr 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 [Take Your Career To The Next Level. Get Access to the Best Jobs 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 [Chrome’s Plan to Distrust Symantec Certificates](https://security.googleblog.com/2017/09/chromes-plan-to-distrust-symantec.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email#) news Google [Security Researchers Lose Faith in HTTP Public Key Pinning](https://thenewstack.io/security-researchers-lose-faith-http-public-key-pinning/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Lucian Constantin [JAX London Conference: Join The World's Java Masterminds (9-12 Oct)](https://jaxlondon.com/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_campaign=mediapartner&utm_content=CooperPress) news A conference for software engineers and enterprise-level professionals. JAX brings together leading innovators in the fields of Java, Microservices, Continuous Delivery and DevOps. JAX London [New German Google Cloud Platform Region Now Open](http://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/09/new-German-GCP-region-open-now.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news The new German region, europe-west3, joins europe-west1 in Belgium, offering another location in continental Europe. Dave Stiver and Michael Korbacher [Connect Your Git Repository to AWS S3 and AWS Services Using Webhooks and New Quick Start](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/connect-your-git-repository-to-amazon-s3-and-aws-services-using-webhooks-and-new-quick-start/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Amazon Web Services, Inc.​ [A Developer's Introduction to Geotraffic](https://fly.io/articles/all-about-geotraffic-distribution/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Kellen Evan Person [A Step-By-Step Guide to Running An Open Source OAuth2 Server](https://www.ory.am/run-oauth2-server-open-source-api-security.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Ory [Monitoring Your Async Python Web Apps Using Prometheus](https://blog.codeship.com/monitoring-your-asynchronous-python-web-applications-using-prometheus/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Amit Saha [Deploy A Global, Private CDN Using Edgemesh Supernodes](https://blog.edgemesh.com/deploy-a-global-private-cdn-on-your-lunch-break-7550e9a9ad7e?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Jacob Loveless [How report-uri.io Improves Performance and Security](https://www.incapsula.com/blog/report-uri-io-improves-performance-security-incapsula.html?utm_source=webops&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=sponsored%20link) How report-uri.io analyzed massive volumes of traffic to keep its violation reporting service available. Imperva Incapsulasponsored [Why Is Serverless Extensibility Better Than Webhooks?](https://auth0.com/blog/why-is-serverless-extensibility-better-than-webhooks/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story A good look at an alternative to webhooks. Auth0 [Moving Our Trading Engine to AWS](http://engineering.skybettingandgaming.com/2017/09/07/trading-on-aws/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Sky Gaming [From Monolith to Microservices: One Company's Plan](https://thenewstack.io/from-monolith-to-microservices-one-companys-plan/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Jennifer Riggins [The Search for Better Search at Reddit](https://redditblog.com/2017/09/07/the-search-for-better-search-at-reddit/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story How Reddit has moved from Postgres, to Lucene, Solr, and now Lucidworks Fusion. Reddit [What Networking Concept Did You Struggle With When Learning?](https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/6zmnx9/what_networking_or_it_concept_did_you_struggle/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion A Reddit discussion that might make you feel better. Reddit [Site Reliability Engineering is a Kind of Magic](https://thenewstack.io/site-reliability-engineering-kind-magic/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Peter Waterhouse [AWS vs Azure vs Google Cloud: Mapping Cloud Solutions Among Leading Providers](https://content.nanobox.io/aws-azure-google-cloud-product-comparisons/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Here is a mapping of Amazon’s offerings compared to those from Microsoft and Google. Richard Robbins [Scaling Your Org with Microservices](https://bridgetkromhout.com/speaking/2017/srecon/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) slidedeck Helpful information and advice on operating microservices. Bridget Kromhout and Charity Majors [10 Ways to Get Your Boss to Buy You Something](https://www.vividcortex.com/resources/get-your-boss-to-buy-you-something?utm_campaign=WebOps%20Weekly&utm_source=ppc&utm_medium=10%20Ways) Get your boss to buy you things... and look good in the process. A guide to advocating for products effectively. VividCortexsponsored [hkpg: Automated Archiving of Heroku Postgres Backups to S3](https://github.com/srt32/hkpg/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Simon Taranto [Takeoff: A Rapid Development Environment Designed for Hack Days](https://medium.com/@tanepiper/takeoff-a-rapid-development-environment-designed-for-hack-days-9a45ae891366?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Oriented around Hapi, React, React Router v4, Redux, Postgres, and NGINX. [GitHub repo.](https://github.com/tanepiper/takeoff) Tane Piper    [Read this issue on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/133) [See our archives](https://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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