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title: "Elasticsearch 6 and MongoDB 3.6 Released"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 142
published_at: "2017-11-15"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/142"
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WebOps Weekly 142   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/142) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](https://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](https://webopsweekly.com) Issue 142 — November 15, 2017     

[How Discord Resizes 150 Million Images Every Day with Go & C++](https://blog.discordapp.com/how-discord-resizes-150-million-images-every-day-with-go-and-c-c9e98731c65d) Discord is a _very_ popular chat app amongst the gaming community. This post looks at how they handle images sent through the system. Discord Blog [Elasticsearch 6.0.0 Released](https://www.elastic.co/blog/elasticsearch-6-0-0-released) The popular full-text search-oriented database gains zero downtime upgrades, faster restarts, faster query times, and more. The new version is based on Lucene 7. Clinton Gormley [My VM Is Lighter (and Safer) Than Your Container](https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/11/02/my-vm-is-lighter-and-safer-than-your-container/) A look at an academic paper which explores the question: _Can we have the improved isolation of VMs, with the efficiency of containers?_ the morning paper [Codeship Ranked Amongst Top 5 Continuous Integration Vendors by Forrester](https://codeship.com/forrester-wave-continuous-integration-report?utm_source=email-sponsorship&utm_medium=cpc-webops-weekly-primary&utm_campaign=forrester-wave-ci-report) Codeship ahead of IBM, AWS, Atlassian, and more. To be considered for Forrester’s report, companies needed to have a comprehensive CI product with a strong vision, more than 25 paying enterprise companies, and a strong product vision. Codeshipsponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/244765a3.png)](https://codeship.com/forrester-wave-continuous-integration-report?utm_source=email-sponsorship&utm_medium=cpc-webops-weekly-primary&utm_campaign=forrester-wave-ci-report) [MongoDB 3.6 Released: Now More Robust to Attacks](https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/announcing-mongodb-36) The new version of the popular NoSQL database is better hardened against network outaages with ‘Retryable Writes’, as well as against ransomware by only binding to localhost by default. MongoDB [How Sentry Receives 20B Events Monthly While Preparing to Handle 2x That](https://stackshare.io/sentry/how-sentry-receives-20-billion-events-per-month-while-preparing-to-handle-twice-that) The tech stack behind Sentry, an error tracking tool, how it has adapted to the company’s growth, and how they handle deploys. StackShare [Cloud Native Storage: A Primer](https://thenewstack.io/state-cloud-native-storage/) To be ‘cloud native’, storage must be flexible/elastic, persist through failures, and be accessible during infrastructure upgrades. Yaron Haviv [Building a Microservices Ecosystem with Kafka Streams and KSQL](https://www.confluent.io/blog/building-a-microservices-ecosystem-with-kafka-streams-and-ksql/) How to build fine grained, streaming microservices with the Apache Kafka Streams API and KSQL. Ben Stopford Jobs [Secure Top Offers from Leading Companies](https://www.indeed.com/prime?sid=cooperpress&kw=webops) Indeed Prime is a free service that helps engineers secure top offers from leading companies - by bringing opportunities to you. Indeed Prime In brief [Red Hat Introduces ARM Server Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux](https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-introduces-arm-server-support-red-hat-enterprise-linux) news Red Hat [LightStep Brings Performance Management to Microservices](https://thenewstack.io/lightstep-brings-performance-management-microservices/) news TC Currie [Twitter Introduces 'Premium' APIs](https://blog.twitter.com/developer/en_us/topics/tools/2017/introducing-twitter-premium-apis.html) news At present, improved searching is on offer for a modest(ish) fee. Twitter [Continuous Delivery: GoCD vs. Jenkins](https://www.gocd.org/2017/04/25/gocd-over-jenkins/?utm_campaign=jenkins_vs_gocd&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cooperess_webops&utm_content=jenkins_blog&utm_term=) We compared GoCD with Jenkins on philosophy, continuous delivery & plugins. Understand how these CI/CD tools fit your needs. GoCDsponsored [Browser Automation Revisited: Meet Puppeteer](https://nemethgergely.com/puppeteer-browser-automation/) tutorial Puppeteer is a Node.js library which provides an API to control a headless Chrome. Gergely Nemeth [Quick Wins For Improving Performance and Security of Your Site](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2017/10/improving-performance-security/) tutorial Jonas Krummenacher [Integrating OpenShift and Splunk for Docker Container Logging](http://www.dwmkerr.com/integrating-openshift-and-splunk-for-logging/) tutorial Dave Kerr [How To: S3 Multi-Region Replication (And Why You Should Care)](https://jessicaluccicom.wordpress.com/2017/08/31/how-to-s3-multi-region-replication-and-why-you-should-care/) tutorial Jessica Lucci [Measuring Web Performance: Analyzing What Matters Most](https://www.keycdn.com/blog/measuring-web-performance/) tutorial Cody Arsenault [An Introduction to API Versioning Best Practices](https://nordicapis.com/introduction-to-api-versioning-best-practices/) tutorial Joshua Curry [A Real-Life AWS Cost Optimization Strategy](https://medium.com/teads-engineering/real-life-aws-cost-optimization-strategy-at-teads-135268b0860f) story How one company maintains good AWS ‘billing hygiene’. Teads Engineering [One Company's Move from NGINX to Envoy (and Why)](https://blog.turbinelabs.io/our-move-to-envoy-bfeb08aa822d) story Turbine Labs [Apache Juneau Makes Java REST Interfaces Easy for Microservices](https://thenewstack.io/apache-juneau-makes-java-rest-interfaces-easy-microservices/) story Susan Hall [How Netflix Works: The Stuff That Happens Every Time You Hit Play](https://medium.com/refraction-tech-everything/how-netflix-works-the-hugely-simplified-complex-stuff-that-happens-every-time-you-hit-play-3a40c9be254b) story ..in a very high-level simplified form. Mayukh Nair [Ask HN: What Are Best Tools for Web Scraping?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15694118) opinion Hacker News [5 Steps to Better Google Cloud Platform Network Performance](https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/11/5-steps-to-better-GCP-network-performance.html) opinion Colt McAnlis [Ask HN: What's The Best Tech for Building a Web Site in 2018?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15685905) opinion The Hacker News commenters are pretty pragmatic on the whole. Hacker News [$20 Free On a New Linode Account](https://welcome.linode.com/webopsweekly/?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=email&utm_term=webops-weekly&utm_campaign=webops-weekly-sponsored) tools Linux cloud hosting starting at 1GB of RAM for $5/mo. Get $20 credit on a new account. Linode Cloud Hostingsponsored [Foxy: A Basic Dashboard for Easier Local Dev Use of Docker](https://github.com/davidholiday/foxy) tools David Holiday    [Read this issue on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/142) [See our archives](https://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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