---
title: "Issue 19: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 19
published_at: "2015-06-17"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/19"
---

WebOps Weekly 19   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/19) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 19 — June 17, 2015     

[Empire: A Self-Hosted PaaS built on Docker & Amazon ECS](http://engineering.remind.com/introducing-empire/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Empire is a 12-factor compatible Docker-based container cluster built on top of Amazon EC2. Remind built it with a goal to move off of Heroku. Eric Holmes [TCP and the Lower Bound of Web Performance](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8orjQLacTo&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video A 45 minute talk about the history of how the Web works under the hood, TCP, congestion control, and the implications of the underlying technology on Web performance. John Rauser [How to Receive A Million Packets Per Second](https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-to-receive-a-million-packets/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A look at some of the practicalities of writing a program to receive 1 million UDP packets per second on Linux. Cloudflare [OpsCast: Preparing for the Holiday eCommerce Rush](http://pages.catchpoint.com/opscast-Holiday-Ecommerce.html?LSD=SPON-WebOpsWeekly) The holiday shopping season delivers record-breaking user traffic for eCommerce websites each year, and while the holidays are still several months away, you should already be preparing your site for this rapid increase. Join this month’s OpsCast, _[Preparing for the Holiday eCommerce Rush](http://pages.catchpoint.com/opscast-Holiday-Ecommerce.html?LSD=SPON-WebOpsWeekly)_, to learn how you can get your site ready for the upcoming holiday shopping season. Catchpointsponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/d890e6e0.png)](http://pages.catchpoint.com/opscast-Holiday-Ecommerce.html?LSD=SPON-WebOpsWeekly) [Inside NGINX: How It Was Designed for Performance and Scale](http://nginx.com/blog/inside-nginx-how-we-designed-for-performance-scale/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A quick diagram-based look at NGINX’s process model, the architecture of worker processes, and how configuration and upgrades are handled. Owen Garrett [HTTP/2 Implementation Status](https://www.mnot.net/blog/2015/06/15/http2_implementation_status?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Support and tooling around HTTP/2 is improving, and things have jumped forward with Apple’s announcement of HTTP/2 support in Safari and on iOS 9. Mark Nottingham [2Mb Web Pages: Who's to Blame?](http://www.sitepoint.com/2mb-web-pages-whos-blame/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Average web page weight has soared 7.5% in five months to exceed 2Mb. SitePoint [HTTP Safety Doesn't Happen by Accident](https://robots.thoughtbot.com/http-safety-doesnt-happen-by-accident?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) “If you only read one RFC this summer, make sure it’s [RFC 7231](http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231). And if you forget everything else in this post, just remember this one thing: GET requests don’t have side effects.” George Brocklehurst [hitch: A Scalable TLS Proxy](https://github.com/varnish/hitch?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code A network proxy that terminates TLS/SSL connections and forwards the unencrypted traffic to a backend. It’s designed to handle 10s of thousands of connections efficiently on multicore machines. Varnish Software In brief [On GitHub You Can Now Create 'Deploy Keys' with Read-Only Access](https://github.com/blog/2024-read-only-deploy-keys?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news GitHub [NGINX 1.9.2 Released](http://nginx.com/blog/nginx-1-9-2-released/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news NGINX [Securing Access to Wikimedia (e.g. Wikipedia) Sites with HTTPS by Default](https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/06/12/securing-wikimedia-sites-with-https/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Wikimedia [Google App Engine for PHP is Generally Available](http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com.au/2015/06/App-Engine-for-PHP-is-generally-available-Build-scalable-apps-faster.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Google Cloud Platform Blog [Navigation Timing Back in Safari, but Will It Stay](http://blog.catchpoint.com/2015/06/11/navigation-timing-back-safari/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Catchpoint [The Top 5 DevOps Dashboards Every Engineer Should Consider](http://blog.takipi.com/the-top-5-devops-dashboards-every-engineer-should-consider/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Takipi Blog [Sundry: A Reconfigurable, Round-Robin Reverse Proxy](https://github.com/PaperElectron/Sundry?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools A caching, dynamically configurable, reverse proxy, written in NodeJS and backed by Redis. PaperElectron [Flocker 1.0: Container Data Management for Docker](https://clusterhq.com/2015/06/17/flocker-1-0/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools An open source container data volume manager for your Dockerized application. It gives ops team the tools they need to run containerized stateful services like databases in production. ClusterHQ [nginx-proxy: Automated NGINX Proxy for Docker Containers using docker-gen](https://github.com/jwilder/nginx-proxy?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Sets up a container running nginx and docker-gen. docker-gen generates reverse proxy configs for nginx and reloads nginx when containers are started and stopped. Jason Wilder [zurl: HTTP and WebSocket Client Worker with ZeroMQ Interface](https://github.com/fanout/zurl?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Zurl is an HTTP and WebSocket client daemon with a ZeroMQ interface. Send it a message to make an HTTP request. Justin Karneges    [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/19) [See our archives](http://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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