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title: "#151: Evaluating and Comparing QUIC vs TCP's Performance"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 151
published_at: "2018-01-31"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/151"
---

WebOps Weekly 151   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/151) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](https://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](https://webopsweekly.com) Issue 151 — January 31, 2018     

[Terraforming 1Password: From AWS to Terraform](https://blog.agilebits.com/2018/01/25/terraforming-1password/) story A technical overview of how popular password management service 1Password switched from AWS CloudFormation over to Terraform for the handling of their growing infrastructure. Roustem Karimov [Measuring QUIC vs TCP on Mobile and Desktop](https://blog.apnic.net/2018/01/29/measuring-quic-vs-tcp-mobile-desktop/) story Most of Google’s Web traffic now uses [QUIC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUIC) as a faster transport layer protocol than TCP, and now a study of its performance has been conducted. Arash Molavi Kakhki [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=primary) What do web threats in 2017 mean for 2018? Impervasponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/6b4e7025.png)](https://www.incapsula.com/blog/the-state-of-web-application-vulnerabilities-in-2017.html?utm_source=webops&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=primary) [Red Hat to Acquire CoreOS](https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-acquire-coreos-expanding-its-kubernetes-and-containers-leadership) news Acquiring [CoreOS](https://coreos.com/) represents a serious further push by Red Hat into the worlds of Kubernetes and containers. Red Hat [Delivering News Feeds to Over 300 Million End Users](https://stackshare.io/stream/stream-and-go-news-feeds-for-over-300-million-end-users) story A dig into the tech stack behind [Stream](https://getstream.io/) and the various data infrastructure, utilities, devops, and business tools they use. StackShare [A History of Low-Level Linux Container Runtimes](https://opensource.com/article/18/1/history-low-level-container-runtimes) tutorial Red Hat likes to say, “Containers are Linux — Linux is Containers.” But what does that mean? Daniel J Walsh [7 Ways to Automate Kubernetes at Scale in Production](https://thenewstack.io/7-ways-automate-kubernetes-scale-production/) _“If the tools you use with and for Kubernetes don’t enable automation, then you’re not truly taking advantage of the benefits of orchestration.”_ Craig Martin Jobs [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 [DevOps Engineer (AWS, Chef, and Rails)](https://www.aha.io/company/careers/current-openings/devops_engineer_us/?utm_campaign=People_Success&utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=paid_people_success_job_ad) Use the software you build. Change how people innovate. [Join Aha!](https://www.aha.io/company/careers/current-openings/devops_engineer_us/?utm_campaign=People_Success&utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=paid_people_success_job_ad) Aha! In brief [Increased Network Bandwidth for AWS EC2 Instances](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/the-floodgates-are-open-increased-network-bandwidth-for-ec2-instances/) news Up to 25Gbps to S3 and certain types of EC2 instances. Jeff Barr [MongoDB Weekly: Yes, We've Launched a MongoDB Newsletter](https://mongodb.email/) news Enjoy this newsletter and use MongoDB? We’ve got you covered :-) Cooperpress [Learn MongoDB Free in M001, MongoDB Basics](https://university.mongodb.com/courses/M001/about?jmp=cpress&utm_campaign=WW_CP_newsletter_sponsorship_FY19Q1&utm_content=brief&utm_medium=display&utm_source=webopsweekly20180131) mongodbsponsored [Running Up Your 'Instant' Kubernetes Cluster](https://blog.alexellis.io/your-instant-kubernetes-cluster/) tutorial Want a cluster up and running fast? Only the essential steps here. Alex Ellis [Writing a Microservice in Rust](http://www.goldsborough.me/rust/web/tutorial/2018/01/20/17-01-11-writing_a_microservice_in_rust/) tutorial A beautifully thorough walkthrough of what’s involved. Peter Goldsborough [How to Build a Simple Web Server with Node](https://www.sitepoint.com/build-a-simple-web-server-with-node-js/) tutorial SitePoint [Top 12 DDoS Attack Types You Need to Know](https://www.incapsula.com/blog/security-glossary-top-12-ddos-attack-types-need-know.html) tutorial Dan Breslaw and Dima Bekerman [7 Ways to Do Containers on Amazon Web Services](https://hackernoon.com/7-ways-to-do-containers-on-aws-532f812196f1) tutorial Michael Hausenblas [How (and Why) I Run My Own DNS Servers](https://zwischenzugs.com/2018/01/26/how-and-why-i-run-my-own-dns-servers/) tutorial Ian Miell [Optimize Utilization and Reduce Cost with GoCD’s Elastic Agents](https://www.gocd.org/elastic-agents/?utm_campaign=elastic_agents&utm_medium=newsletter_ad&utm_source=cooperess_webops&utm_content=elastic_agents&utm_term=) tools Scale up, with on-demand agents. GoCD’s elastic agents gives you the flexibility and savings you need. GoCDsponsored [Testing Varnish Performance After Patching for Meltdown and Spectre](https://info.varnish-software.com/blog/testing-varnish-performance-after-patching-for-meltdown-spectre) story A low single digit percentage effect.. Arianna Aondio [How Changing Our CDN Affected GoogleBot’s Behaviour](https://medium.com/practo-engineering/cdn-change-and-its-effects-on-googlebots-behaviour-990b5ac880a7) story A new IP can mean GoogleBot throttles its crawls. Sahana Bhat [SEO Performance in 2018 Using Cloudflare](https://blog.cloudflare.com/seo-performance-in-2018-using-cloudflare/) story Cloudflare [Scripting Your Network Benchmark Tests with Lua](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhsLzoiFnD4) video .. using the [rushit](https://github.com/rushit-tool/rushit) micro-benchmarking tool. Jakub Sitnicki [IPv6 and Containers: Why We Can't Have Nice Things (And How We Can)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF50OxZ5u4o) video An engaging talk about IPv6 and why you should (or shouldn’t) use it with your containers. Matt Palmer [Please Stop Using 'Local Storage'](https://www.rdegges.com/2018/please-stop-using-local-storage/) opinion Why you should stop using it to store session data. Randall Degges [How Red Hat's Shaking Up the Container Ecosystem with CoreOS Deal](https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/01/30/red-hat-shakes-container-ecosystem-coreos-deal/) opinion Timothy Prickett Morgan [5 Critical DevOps Practices To Make Your Team More Effective](http://blog.scalyr.com/2018/01/5-critical-devops-practices/) opinion Erik Dietrich [Linux Cloud Hosting Starting at 1GB of RAM for $5/mo](https://welcome.linode.com/webopsweekly/?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=sponsored&utm_term=webops-weekly&utm_campaign=webops-weekly-brief) tools Linode Cloud Hostingsponsored [Ivy: A Minimalist Static Website Generator in Python](http://mulholland.xyz/docs/ivy/) tools Darren Mulholland [Portier: An Email-Based, Passwordless Authentication Service](https://portier.github.io/) code portier.​github.​io [Operos: A Linux-Based OS for Hyperscaler-Grade Infrastructure Automation](https://github.com/paxautoma/operos) code Including scheduled containers, software defined networking, and converged storage, all on commodity x86 servers. 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