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title: "#136: NGINX's Specialized Monitoring Tool Goes GA"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 136
published_at: "2017-10-04"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/136"
---

WebOps Weekly 136   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/136) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](https://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](https://webopsweekly.com) Issue 136 — October 4, 2017     

[Airbnb's 10 Takeaways from Moving to Microservices](https://thenewstack.io/airbnbs-10-takeaways-moving-microservices/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news 10 lessons learnt from Airbnb’s experiences in deploying microservices - which they now do 3500 times a week with 900 engineers. The New Stack [NGINX Amplify: A Specialized Monitoring Tool for NGINX](https://www.nginx.com/blog/announcing-nginx-amplify-ga/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Amplify, a tool to make it easy to monitor NGINX deployments in depth, has reached general availability. NGINX [Oracle Sets Sights on AWS with New Services](https://thenewstack.io/openworld-oracle-sets-sites-aws-new-serverless-cloud-offerings/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Oracle might be late to the cloud scene but its new drop-in replacement for AWS Lambda might turn heads, particularly with its (much) cheaper storage options. The New Stack [Linux cloud hosting starting at 1GB of RAM for $5/mo](https://welcome.linode.com/webopsweekly/?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=email&utm_term=webops-weekly&utm_campaign=webops-weekly-primary) Get a Linode server up and running in seconds. Simply choose your plan, distro and location and you’re ready to deploy your server. Get $20 credit on a new account. Linode Cloud Hostingsponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/7cc86267.png)](https://welcome.linode.com/webopsweekly/?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=email&utm_term=webops-weekly&utm_campaign=webops-weekly-primary) [A Journey From Redis 2 to Redis 3 Without Site Downtime](http://engineering.skybettingandgaming.com/2017/09/25/redis-2-to-redis-3/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story How a major gaming site managed to upgrade its Redis databases from version 2 to 3 without any downtime. Craig Stewart [Essential Image Optimization for the Web](https://images.guide/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial A free ebook on modern image optimization techniques. Formats, decoders, techniques for efficient compression and more are covered. Addy Osmani [How HTTP/2 Solves The Performance Issues Of HTTP/1.1](http://vanseodesign.com/web-design/http2-performance/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion HTTP/2 solves some of the performance issues of HTTP/1.1, however, it has different performance strategies and practices. Steven Bradley [How to Build a 1 Kilobyte Docker Container](https://blog.quickmediasolutions.com/2017/09/28/a-1-kb-docker-container.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial A Docker container containing a single executable with no dependencies that occupies less than 1 KB of space on disk. Nathan Osman [How .NET Core 2.0 Bridges Old MS Languages with Containers](https://thenewstack.io/microsoft-builds-basic-bridge-containers-net-core-2-0/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A podcast interview with Scott Hanselman of bringing older code over to .NET Core to run it in containers on alternative systems. The New Stack Jobs [Developer Evangelist in London (part remote)](http://jobs.ably.io/o/developer-evangelist-in-london-part-remote) Let the world know how awesome our distributed messaging platform is whilst learning new technologies and contributing to the community. Ably realtime In brief [Kubernetes 1.8 Released: Security, Workloads and Feature Depth](http://blog.kubernetes.io/2017/09/kubernetes-18-security-workloads-and.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Aparna Sinha [All Day DevOps 2017, A Free Online Event on October 24](https://www.alldaydevops.com/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news An online conference covering CI/CD, infrastructure, monitoring and more. [Schedule here.](https://www.alldaydevops.com/schedule) Sonatype Inc.​ [Free Continuous Delivery eBook from GoCD](https://www.gocd.org/cd101/?utm_campaign=cooperpress&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cooperpress_webops&utm_content=cd_101_ebook&utm_term=) Free Continuous Delivery 101 ebook where you’ll get a reference guide with visuals on key concepts. GoCDsponsored [Demystifying Container Networking: A Deep Dive](http://blog.mbrt.it/2017-10-01-demystifying-container-networking/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Michele Bertasi [How to Build A Serverless Contact Form on AWS](https://www.cloudassessments.com/blog/how-to-build-a-serverless-contact-form-on-aws/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Kyle Galbraith [How Docker Can Improve Your Development Environments](https://medium.com/phytochemia-tech-blog/how-docker-can-improve-your-development-environments-731cdfda0b9a?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Kim Desrosiers [Best Practices for Working with AWS Lambda Functions](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/best-practices.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial An updated set of best practices from the horse’s mouth. Amazon [How to Find WordPress Performance Bottlenecks with New Relic](https://kinsta.com/blog/wordpress-performance-new-relic/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Jon Penland [How I Survived Going Viral on a $5 Linode](https://mereommig.dk/en/blog/how-i-survived-going-viral-on-a-5-linode?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Martin Hobert [From PHP to JavaScript with Node.js](https://blog.matters.tech/migrating-from-php-to-javascript-with-node-js-155534498b58?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Feedback on a successful migration from a PHP to a JavaScript stack using Node. Vincent Desmares [Aligning a Team around Microservices When There's No Precise Definition](http://highscalability.com/blog/2017/9/27/aligning-your-team-around-microservices-when-theres-no-preci.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Roger Jin [The Field Narrows In The Race Of Container Orchestration Platforms](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/field-narrows-race-container-orchestration-platforms-benjamin-wootton/?published=t&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Bullish on Kubernetes and Rancher. Bearish on Docker and Mesos. Benjamin Wootton [Reduce time spent debugging by 90%](https://rollbar.com/webopsweekly) tools Instantly know whats broken and why. Real-time monitoring, alerting, analytics for production errors w/ Rollbar. ROLLBARsponsored [vhost-gen: Configurable vHost Generator for Apache 2.2, 2.4 and NGINX](https://github.com/devilbox/vhost-gen?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools cytopia [Fero: Light, Fast, Scalable, Streaming JS Microservices Made Easy](https://github.com/pemrouz/fero?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Pedram Emrouznejad    [Read this issue on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/136) [See our archives](https://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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