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title: "#141: How the BBC is working with HTTPS and HTTP/2"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 141
published_at: "2017-11-08"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/141"
---

WebOps Weekly 141   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/141) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](https://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](https://webopsweekly.com) Issue 141 — November 8, 2017     

[How The BBC Has Been Trying Out HTTP/2](https://medium.com/bbc-design-engineering/http-2-is-easy-just-turn-it-on-34baad2d1fb1) story A write up about the benefits of HTTP/2 and how the BBC has begun to make use of it across its services for faster performance. BBC Design and Engineering [The AWS Lambda and Serverless Team Did a Reddit AMA](https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/7a5anz/we_are_the_aws_lambda_serverless_team_ask_the/) news The Lambda team at AWS did a popular “Ask Me Anything” session on Reddit. Reddit [Enabling Secure HTTP for BBC Online](https://medium.com/bbc-design-engineering/enabling-secure-http-for-bbc-online-media-4c8b597f69f) tutorial It must be BBC week, as Lloyd Wallis, a Senior Engineer for the BBC, talks about moving the broadcaster’s media streaming over to HTTPS :-) BBC Design and Engineering [Continuous Delivery 101 from GoCD](https://www.gocd.org/2017/07/13/introduction-continuous-delivery-101/?utm_campaign=CD_101_video&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cooperess_webops&utm_content=cd_101_video&utm_term=) This video series covers the history of CD, concepts, best practices, how to get started, and popular tools. You'll gain a holistic view of continuous delivery and a deeper understanding and appreciation of critical concepts. GoCDsponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/cc1cfa3d.jpg)](https://www.gocd.org/2017/07/13/introduction-continuous-delivery-101/?utm_campaign=CD_101_video&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cooperess_webops&utm_content=cd_101_video&utm_term=) [Getting Started with Microservices using Go, gRPC & Kubernetes](https://outcrawl.com/getting-started-microservices-go-grpc-kubernetes/) tutorial An intro to building Go-powered microservices and deploying them to a Kubernetes cluster. Tin Rabzelj [Prometheus 2.0: The Monitoring Solution Gets Faster](https://prometheus.io/blog/2017/11/08/announcing-prometheus-2-0/) tools The popular open-source monitoring system features a new faster and more efficient storage engine and is now easier to deploy in production. Prometheus [New Compute-Intensive 'C5' Instances on EC2](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-available-compute-intensive-c5-instances-for-amazon-ec2/) news A new family of EC2 instances designed for compute-heavy applications. They go up to 72 vCPUs and 144GB of RAM. Jeff Barr Jobs [DevOps Engineer - Remote](https://renderedtext.workable.com/jobs/601158) Want to help us build the best continuous delivery service in the world? We're looking for engineers to join our Platform team. Semaphore [Software Engineer](https://www.indeed.com/prime/roles/tech/software_engineer/san-francisco-ca?sid=cooperpress&ikw=cobranded) Apply now for this job on Indeed Prime and you’ll also be considered for similar jobs at leading companies for free. Indeed Prime In brief [DNSSEC Now Available on Google Cloud DNS](https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/11/DNSSEC-now-available-in-Cloud-DNS.html) news Google Cloud Platform Blog [Heroku Announces 'Private Space Peering' for AWS](https://blog.heroku.com/private-space-peering) news To connect to other services in Amazon VPCs controlled by you. Heroku [40% of Azure VMs Now Run Linux](http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-says-40-percent-of-all-vms-in-azure-now-are-running-linux/) news Up from ‘nearly a third’ a year ago. Mary Jo Foley [AWS Adopts Home-Brewed KVM as New Hypervisor](https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/07/aws_writes_new_kvm_based_hypervisor_to_make_its_cloud_go_faster/) news The Register [Cloud Foundry Adds Native Kubernetes Support for Running Containers](https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/11/cloud-foundry-launches-its-online-marketplace-and-adds-native-kubernetes-support/) news Frederic Lardinois [Heroku Announces PCI Compliance for Shield](https://blog.heroku.com/pci-compliance-for-heroku-shield) news Heroku [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 [Understanding The 'Vary' HTTP Header](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2017/11/understanding-vary-header/) tutorial Andrew Betts [Kubernetes the Easy Way](http://blog.kubernetes.io/2017/11/kubernetes-easy-way.html) tutorial A walkthrough of setting up and deploying to a Kubernetes cluster. Dan Garfield [Architecting a Highly Scalable Go API with Docker Swarm and Traefik](https://hackernoon.com/architecting-a-highly-scalable-golang-api-with-docker-swarm-traefik-875d1871cc1f) tutorial Mohamed Labouardy [Modernizing Java Apps with Docker](https://blog.docker.com/2017/11/mta-java-apps-for-it-pros/) video Sophia Parafina and Arun Gupta [Modernizing Apps from PoC to Production with Docker Enterprise Edition](https://blog.docker.com/2017/10/modernizing-applications-poc-production-docker-enterprise-edition/) video Lee Namba [How Docker's Support for Kubernetes Will Impact Developers](https://thenewstack.io/dockers-support-kubernetes-impacts-developers/) podcast Kiran Oliver [Continuous Deployment is a Niche Practice; Continuous Delivery is More Fundamental](https://blog.matthewskelton.net/2017/10/27/continuous-deployment-is-a-niche-practice-continuous-delivery-is-more-fundamental/) opinion Why continuous delivery is “the more fundamental practice”. Matthew Skelton [Should We Stop Using Google's Font Service and Self Host?](https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/1307) opinion .. as Google can change how fonts look on the fly. Google [So, What is DevOps?](https://www.engineyard.com/blog/what-is-devops) The million-dollar question, it is. Much like the trailer for “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” it seems like everyone is talking about DevOps. Engine Yardsponsored [Amazon ECS CLI 1.0 Released](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/11/amazon-ecs-cli-version-1-0-0/) tools Amazon Web Services [DNSRecords.io: A 'Beautiful' Webapp to Fetch DNS Records](https://murze.be/2017/11/beautiful-webapp-fetch-dns-records/) tools Freek Van der Herten [sqs-s3-logger: Automated Serverless Logging to S3 Via SQS](https://github.com/ellimilial/sqs-s3-logger) code A library to persist messages on S3 using serverless architecture. Mateusz Kaczynski    [Read this issue on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/141) [See our archives](https://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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