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title: "#135: How To Serve Over 1 Trillion HTTP Reqs Per\u00a0Month"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 135
published_at: "2017-09-27"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/135"
---

WebOps Weekly 135   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/135) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](https://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](https://webopsweekly.com) Issue 135 — September 27, 2017     

[HAProxy vs NGINX for Load Balancing](https://thehftguy.com/2016/10/03/haproxy-vs-nginx-why-you-should-never-use-nginx-for-load-balancing/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion The author argues you should never use NGINX for load balancing because of a lack of detailed status/monitoring info out of the box. The HFT Guy [How Adcash Serves Over 1 Trillion HTTP Reqs Per Month](http://highscalability.com/blog/2017/9/25/adcash-1-trillion-http-requests-per-month.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story If you like a look into high traffic stacks, this case study looking over an advertising platform’s system is worth a look. High Scalability [Web Performance in The Real World: How to Make Fast Sites](https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/WebPlatformSummit/Microsoft-Edge-Web-Summit-2017/ES15?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video An exploration of work the Microsoft Edge team does to help developers build faster sites, and how to think of performance as an investigative activity, beyond a checklist approach. Nolan Lawson [Debug app errors and slowdowns with Datadog APM](https://www.datadoghq.com/dg/apm/lpg/?utm_source=Advertisement&utm_medium=CooperPress&utm_campaign=CooperPress-WebOpsWeeklyPAPM) Trace real requests from end to end, across service boundaries, to quickly identify the source of errors or performance bottlenecks. Datadogsponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/1942332c.png)](https://www.datadoghq.com/dg/apm/lpg/?utm_source=Advertisement&utm_medium=CooperPress&utm_campaign=CooperPress-WebOpsWeeklyPAPM) [Sysdig Inspect: A Container Troubleshooting and Security Investigation Tool](https://github.com/draios/sysdig-inspect?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools An interface for exploring the output of [sysdig](https://github.com/draios/sysdig), a system visibility tool with native support for containers. Sysdig [Cloudflare's 'Unmetered Mitigation' Policy for DDoS Attacks](https://blog.cloudflare.com/unmetered-mitigation/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Cloudflare makes a bold promise saying they will “no longer terminate customers, regardless of the size of the DDoS attacks they receive…” Cloudflare [Evolution of Data Structures In Yandex.Metrica](http://highscalability.com/blog/2017/9/18/evolution-of-data-structures-in-yandexmetrica.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story How Yandex’s Metrica web analytics service modified their approach to storage, hardware utilization, and efficiency in response to huge growth. High Scalability Jobs [DevOps engineer for a distributed messaging platform](http://jobs.ably.io/o/devops-engineer-for-ablys-distributed-platform-remote-london) We’re solving truly complex distributed problems with significant infrastructure scale. If you enjoy challenging your grey matter, [apply](http://jobs.ably.io/o/devops-engineer-for-ablys-distributed-platform-remote-london). Ably realtime [Get Your Next Tech Job Faster. Get Hired 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 [Google Cloud Announces IPv6 Global Load Balancing GA](https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/09/announcing-ipv6-global-load-balancing-ga.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Google [AWS Pinpoint Launches Two-Way Text Messaging](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-pinpoint-launches-two-way-text-messaging/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Two-way programmatic text messaging is now possible on AWS. Amazon Web Services [Google Cloud Extends Per Second Billing Support](https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/09/extending-per-second-billing-in-google.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news More Google services get per-second billing, though with a one minute minimum. Google [Google Cloud Acquires Cloud Identity Management Company Bitium](https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/26/google-cloud-acquires-cloud-identity-management-company-bitium/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news TechCrunch [An AWS Region in the Middle East (Bahrain) Due By 2019](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in-the-works-aws-region-in-the-middle-east/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Jeff Barr [Announcing a Public Preview of PowerShell in Azure Cloud Shell](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/powershell-comes-to-azure-cloud-shell/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Microsoft [A Beginner’s Guide to the Docker File](https://resources.codeship.com/ebooks/dockerfile-guide-aw?utm_source=email-sponsorship&utm_medium=cpc-webops-weekly-secondary&utm_campaign=cooper-dockerfile-guide-ebook) Learn how to work with a Dockerfile and which commands you can run, how to create a Dockerfile and pushing images to the Docker Hub. Codeshipsponsored [Getting Started With Prometheus and CrateDB for Long-Term Storage](https://crate.io/a/getting-started-prometheus-cratedb-long-term-storage/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial [Prometheus](https://prometheus.io/) is a monitoring and alerting tool and CrateDB is well suited for storing huge amounts of monitoring data. Naomi Slater [Code Evaluation with AWS Lambda and API Gateway](https://realpython.com/blog/python/code-evaluation-with-aws-lambda-and-api-gateway/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email#.WckBpziApeU.hackernews) tutorial Michael Herman [Build A Web Service with F# and .NET Core 2.0](https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2017/09/26/build-a-web-service-with-f-and-net-core-2-0/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial F# is a pretty awesome multi-paradigm language. Phillip Carter [Getting Started with Building Realtime API Infrastructure](https://realtimeapi.io/getting-started-with-building-realtime-api-infrastructure/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Justin Baker [Practical Scalability Analysis with the Universal Scalability Law](https://www.vividcortex.com/resources/universal-scalability-law/?utm_campaign=WebOps%20Weekly&utm_source=ppc&utm_medium=Practical%20Scalability) The Universal Scalability Law models how systems perform as they grow. This ebook shows how to best use it. VividCortexsponsored [How the Internet Kept Humming During 2 Hurricanes](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/18/us/harvey-irma-internet.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story While millions lost electricity across Florida, data centers largely held firm. James Glanz [How Event-Driven Architecture is the Wave of the Future](https://thenewstack.io/event-driven-architecture-wave-future/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion TC Currie [The 80/20 Rule Points to Real Benefits from Containers in Production](https://thenewstack.io/8020-rule-points-real-benefits-containers-production/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Mark Thiele [23 Videos from DevOpsDays Chicago 2017](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE7tQUdRKcyZoTZFWWJz4BwBrk3yy0Rr2&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email#devopsdayschicago) video YouTube [The Evolution of Windows Server: What's New in The Latest Release](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJrZbcEZFFc&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video Microsoft Mechanics [Monitoring Cloudflare's Planet-Scale Edge Network with Prometheus [PDF\]](https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzRE_fwreoDQNzUybnRFOHpWZTA/view?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) How Cloudflare use Prometheus for monitoring/alerts/metrics on a global-scale edge network. Matt Bostock [nginx-module-vts: NGINX Virtual Host Traffic Status Module](https://github.com/vozlt/nginx-module-vts?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Kim YoungJoo [k8s-sql: A Storage Backend for Kubernetes using Go's database/sql](https://github.com/rancher/k8s-sql?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code github.​com    [Read this issue on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/135) [See our archives](https://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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