--- title: "Google's Best Practices for User Accounts and Authentiation" publication: "StatusCode Weekly" issue: 152 published_at: "2018-02-07" canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/152" --- WebOps Weekly 152 . The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/152) [![WebOps Weekly\](https://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](https://webopsweekly.com) Issue 152 — February 7, 2018 Welcome It's not often we launch a new newsletter so I'm excited to announce our newest one goes out tomorrow - it's called [MongoDB Weekly.](https://mongodb.email/) No prizes for guessing what it's about! You can see [a preview issue here](https://mongodb.email/issues/1) and if you like it, sign up to get the first non-preview issue tomorrow. Thanks! - Peter Cooper, editor [12 Best Practices for User Account, Auth and Password Management](https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/01/12-best-practices-for-user-account.html) opinion A post laying out best practices to ensure you have a safe, scalable, usable account authentication system. Ian Maddox (Google) [Building Scalable Microservices with gRPC](https://blog.bugsnag.com/grpc-and-microservices-architecture/) story A technical look at why Bugsnag chose to implement gRPC in its data processing pipeline after reaching the limits of RESTful approaches. Ben Ibinson [Upgrade Your Team with 2x Faster CI/CD](https://semaphoreci.com/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=webopsweekly-20180207) Teams from Toyota and Uber are moving to Semaphore. Try it free today to find out why. 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