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title: "#150: Best Practices for Staging Environments"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 150
published_at: "2018-01-24"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/150"
---

WebOps Weekly 150   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/150) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](https://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](https://webopsweekly.com) Issue 150 — January 24, 2018     

[The Gravity of Kubernetes](https://hackernoon.com/the-gravity-of-kubernetes-33126a96ee23) opinion [Kubernetes](https://kubernetes.io/) has become a popular way of deploying new distributed applications. This posts outlines why and what the implications are. Prefer to listen? [Podcast version here](https://www.softwaredaily.com/#/post/5a5a2387f43c8d000457a110). Jeff Meyerson [Best Practices for Staging Environments](https://increment.com/development/center-stage-best-practices-for-staging-environments/) tutorial When you’ve got a new feature to push, it’s tempting, but risky, to go straight to production. A ‘production lite’ staging environment can help you indulge yourself without affecting end users. Alice Goldfuss [Scaling ipify to 30 Billion Requests on Heroku](https://blog.heroku.com/scaling-ipify-to-30-billion-and-beyond) story The tale behind scaling an IP lookup service to 10,000 requests per second on Heroku. Randall Degges [Redis 4.0 with HA from RedisGreen](http://www.redisgreen.net/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2018a&utm_content=primary&utm_term=r4+ha) Try Redis 4.0 with HA and memory analysis features from RedisGreen. RedisGreensponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/2e84d7c6.png)](http://www.redisgreen.net/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2018a&utm_content=primary&utm_term=r4+ha) [Scaling Kubernetes to 2,500 Nodes](https://blog.openai.com/scaling-kubernetes-to-2500-nodes/) story OpenAI runs over 2,500 nodes using Kubernetes on Azure for its deep learning workloads. Here they share issues they’ve run into over the years. OpenAI [AWS Auto Scaling: Unified Scaling For AWS Apps](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-auto-scaling-unified-scaling-for-your-cloud-applications/?tag=cnet-viglink-20) news Numerous AWS services support automatic scaling features but now there’s a single interface to set up alarms and actions for them. Jeff Barr [An NGINX Configuration Generator Tool](https://nginxconfig.io/) tools Specify domain, path, if you need PHP, cache expiry times, and a few other settings to get some initial configuration suggestions. nginxconfig.​io [Apache Mesos & Kafka Streams for Highly Scalable Microservices](https://www.confluent.io/blog/apache-mesos-apache-kafka-kafka-streams-highly-scalable-microservices/) tutorial How to build a scalable, mission-critical microservice infrastructure with Apache Kafka, its Streams API and Apache Mesos. Kai Waehner [Serverless Status: The Latest Serverless News](https://serverless.email/) news In case you haven’t seen it yet, we have another newsletter dedicated entirely to _serverless_ architectures, tools like AWS Lambda, etc. Here’s [the latest issue](https://serverless.email/issues/35). Cooperpress Jobs [Technical Writer (Full Time / Part Time / Remote)](https://nick1214.typeform.com/to/WMkrRk) Do you like writing for a technical audience? Looking for a bit of extra income, a part-time or a full time role, drop us a line. Raygun [WebOps Jobs at 4,000+ Companies](https://www.vettery.com/tech?utm_medium=cooper-webopsweekly&utm_campaign=ad-1714&utm_source=newsletter&utm_content=grouped&utm_term=tech) Try Vettery to start getting tech job offers delivered right to your inbox. Vettery In brief [Flattening Networks – And Budgets – With 400G Ethernet](https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/01/20/flattening-networks-budgets-400g-ethernet/) news Network bandwidth opportunities are scaling faster than Moore’s Law. Timothy Prickett Morgan [Be Prepared - High Traffic Can Impact Your Website & Apps](https://learn.percona.com/cp-how-high-traffic-events-affect-your-database-environment) Perconasponsored [How to Record SSH Sessions with OpenSSH Servers](https://gravitational.com/blog/how-to-record-ssh-sessions/) tutorial For educational or compliance purposes. Ev Kontsevoy [How To Establish a High Severity Incident Management Program](https://www.gremlin.com/how-to-establish-a-high-severity-incident-management-program/) tutorial Tammy Butow [Serverless WebSockets with AWS Lambda and Fanout](https://hackernoon.com/serverless-websockets-with-aws-lambda-fanout-15384bd30354) tutorial Adding realtime data push to a serverless backend using [fanout](https://fanout.io/), a third party service. Justin Baker [Make Your Site Faster with Preconnect Hints](https://www.viget.com/articles/make-your-site-faster-with-preconnect-hints/) tutorial With preconnect hints, reduce request latency and make your site faster. Jeremy Frank [Build a Ping Service & Status Page with StdLib Scheduled Tasks](https://codeburst.io/build-a-serverless-ping-service-status-page-in-5-steps-with-stdlib-scheduled-tasks-6bdd164e67dc) tutorial Steve Meyer [The State of Web App Vulnerabilities in 2017](https://www.incapsula.com/blog/the-state-of-web-application-vulnerabilities-in-2017.html?utm_source=webops&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=sponsoredlink) opinion What do web threats in 2017 mean for 2018? Impervasponsored [How to Overcome Cultural Challenges & Transform to True DevSecOps](https://thenewstack.io/devops-security-overcome-cultural-challenges-transform-true-devsecops/) opinion Mike Kail [Experiences with Running Postgres on Kubernetes](https://gravitational.com/blog/running-postgresql-on-kubernetes/) story Abraham Ingersoll [Using Envoy to Load Balance gRPC Traffic](https://blog.bugsnag.com/envoy/) story Mike White [A 7 Minute Overview of DevOps with Microsoft Azure](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp1nzm_5SJg) video Microsoft Mechanics [How Netflix Tunes AWS EC2](http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-12-31/reinvent-netflix-ec2-tuning.html) video Brendan Gregg [How Slack Stays Secure During Hyper Growth](https://www.heavybit.com/library/podcasts/the-secure-developer/ep-14-how-slack-stays-secure-during-hyper-growth/) podcast The Secure Developer Podcast [How Netflix Supports DevOps at Scale](https://thenewstack.io/netflix-devops-scale/) podcast Dianne Marsh [Run and Scale Apps in Seconds on DigitalOcean - $100 Credit](https://try.digitalocean.com/performance/?utm_medium=display&utm_source=paid_newsletter+webops+weekly&utm_campaign=PricePerf+dr+droplets+newsletters&utm_content=1-24-2018+webops+weekly+cooperpress) tools DigitalOceansponsored [Kedge: Simple Declarative Kubernetes Definitions](http://kedgeproject.org/) tools kedgeproject.​org [Supercronic: Cron for Containers](https://github.com/aptible/supercronic) code crontab-compatible and written in Go. 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