--- title: "Issue 14: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news" publication: "StatusCode Weekly" issue: 14 published_at: "2015-05-13" canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/14" --- WebOps Weekly 14 . The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/14) [![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 14 — May 13, 2015 [MicroservicePremium: Is A Microservice Architecture A Good Choice for You?](http://martinfowler.com/bliki/MicroservicePremium.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) ‘My primary guideline would be don’t even consider microservices unless you have a system that’s too complex to manage as a monolith.’ Martin Fowler [Hero Image Custom Metrics](http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2015/05/12/hero-image-custom-metrics/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Steve Souders reflects on ‘hero images’, large above-the-fold images that are common on e-commerce sites in particular. Steve Souders [Architecting Websites For The HTTP/2 Era](https://ma.ttias.be/architecting-websites-http2-era/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) ‘The arrival of HTTP/2 will require a bit of re-thinking how we handle websites (and webservers). This makes it a good time to reflect on what those changes can bring.’ Mattias Geniar [How to Deliver Great User Experiences in China](http://pages.catchpoint.com/OpsCast-Delivering-to-China.html?LSD=SPON-WebOpsWeekly) The Chinese Internet landscape can be tricky to navigate; but considering the nation’s increasing number of users, it’s vital to learn how to avoid the obstacles and provide exceptional user experiences. Join our free _Delivering Great User Experiences in China_ OpsCast on May 21 to learn about the state of the Internet in China and how to build a failsafe strategy from the leaders of the performance industry. [Register today!](http://pages.catchpoint.com/OpsCast-Delivering-to-China.html?LSD=SPON-WebOpsWeekly) Catchpointsponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/107f74f1.png)](http://pages.catchpoint.com/OpsCast-Delivering-to-China.html?LSD=SPON-WebOpsWeekly) [Making Your Pages One Second Faster Could Increase Conversions More Than 9%](http://www.soasta.com/the-performance-beacon/web-performance-mothers-day/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Tammy Everts shares a variety of Mother’s Day-themed Web performance related statistics. For example, when faced with a poorly performing site, 49% of visitors will jump to a competitor. Tammy Everts [Heroku’s New Free (as in beer) Dynos](https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2015/5/7/heroku-free-dynos?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Heroku has been working towards a new pricing model for a while and received criticism from users currently using their services for free. A new ‘free’ dyno type has now come into beta to answer some concerns, however. Heroku [19 Minutes With Ansible](https://sysadmincasts.com/episodes/43-19-minutes-with-ansible-part-1-4?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video The first in a series of free screencasts looking at Ansible, a popular configuration management and orchestration tool increasingly used for deploying webapps. Sysadmin Casts [Is Mobile Friendly 'Friendly' Enough?](http://webperformance.io/mobile-friendly-data?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Being ‘mobile friendly’ (as is now important for Google search rankings, as well as to mobile users) doesn’t just mean having a mobile-friendly design but being friendly to data and network usage too. But what questions should you be asking? Matt Shull [HTTPS: The End of An Era](https://medium.com/@b_k/https-the-end-of-an-era-c106acded474?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Mozilla’s recent [announcement it wants to deprecate HTTP](https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2015/04/30/deprecating-non-secure-http/) by only rolling out new features for HTTPS-based sites has Ben worried for the homebrew Web. Ben Klemens In brief [Vox Media is Declaring 'Performance Bankruptcy'](http://product.voxmedia.com/2015/5/6/8561867/declaring-performance-bankruptcy?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Its sites (such as The Verge) have become so slow, it’s time for firm action. Vox Product Blog [New Relic Unveils Beta Docker Support](https://blog.newrelic.com/2015/05/06/docker-support-2/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news New Relic [Run Docker Apps Locally Using the Elastic Beanstalk (EB) CLI](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/run-docker-apps-locally-using-the-elastic-beanstalk-eb-cli/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Amazon [HTTP/2 for TCP/IP Geeks (slidedeck)](http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2015/05/07/http2-for-tcpip-geeks/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Daniel Stenberg [QJump, or: How to Be Un-British in The Data Centre](http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/camsas/blog/2015-05-12-qjump.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A paper showing how to build a guaranteed-latency messaging service within a data centre by allowing a limited number of packets to skip queues on commodity hardware. Cambridge University [Amazon Web Services to Google Cloud Platform Service Mapping](https://gregsramblings.com/2015/05/07/aws-to-gcp-mapping/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Mapping between the major services in AWS and Google Cloud Platform. Greg Wilson [We're Deprecating HTTP And It's Going To Be Okay](https://konklone.com/post/were-deprecating-http-and-its-going-to-be-okay?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Some points that look at how HTTPS-only will change the dynamic of the Web for the better. Eric Mill [The 7 Steps to Pragmatic Mobile Testing (Step 1: Know Your User)](http://www.soasta.com/dev-blog/mobile-web-performance-testing-step-1/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Dan Boutin [Apache Cassandra in a Microservices Enterprise Platform](http://tech.finn.no/2015/04/28/Apache-Cassandra-in-a-Microservices-Enterprise-Platform/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion FINN Technology [Google PageSpeed Service Customers: Migrate to CloudFlare for Acceleration](https://blog.cloudflare.com/google-pagespeed-service-customers-migrate-to-cloudflare-for-acceleration/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools opinion CloudFlare [Chaos HTTP Proxy: Introduce Failures Into HTTP Requests via a Proxy Server](https://github.com/bouncestorage/chaos-http-proxy?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools A great way to test the resilience of your HTTP based systems is to use an HTTP proxy that introduces random failures. Bounce Storage [h2i: An Interactive HTTP/2 Console Debugger](https://github.com/bradfitz/http2/tree/master/h2i?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools code Send raw HTTP/2 frames, type in HTTP/1 and have it auto packed for HTTP/2, pretty print all received HTTP/2 frames, and more. Brad Fitzpatrick [Apache Usergrid: A RESTful Multi-Tenant Backend-as-a-Service Stack](https://github.com/apache/incubator-usergrid?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Apache Software Foundation [Server Side Processing with NGINX and Lua](https://github.com/titpetric/nginx-lesscss?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial code You can embed the power of Lua (a scripting language) into NGINX, and these scripts for LESS, Sass/SCSS and ES6 could be useful. 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