---
title: "Issue 20: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 20
published_at: "2015-06-24"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/20"
---

WebOps Weekly 20   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/20) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 20 — June 24, 2015     

[The Secret Alliance That Could Give The Web A Massive Speed Boost](http://www.cnet.com/news/the-secret-alliance-that-could-give-the-web-a-massive-speed-boost/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A high level look at WebAssembly, what the author says represents ‘an unusually broad tie-up of browser makers working on faster Web performance’. Stephen Shankland [Be Mobile Friendly with The New W3C Mobile Checker](http://www.w3.org/blog/validator/2015/06/23/the-new-w3c-mobile-checkers-alpha-release-be-mobile-friendly/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Announcing the alpha release of the W3C’s new ‘Mobile Checker’ which emulates a mobile browser when checking a Web page and creates a report of possible issues. W3C [Boosting NGINX Performance 9x with Thread Pools](http://nginx.com/blog/thread-pools-boost-performance-9x/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) The situation outlined only occurs with specific types of load but if your workload could benefit from NGINX’s new thread pool support, the rewards could be vast. NGINX [Declaring Format Wars Over, Docker Slips a Universal Runtime Into All Containers](http://thenewstack.io/declaring-format-wars-over-docker-slips-a-universal-runtime-into-all-containers/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Docker has [announced runC](https://blog.docker.com/2015/06/runc/), a lightweight universal container runtime. The New Stack [Codeship - The fast and customizable Continuous Delivery platform](https://codeship.com/?utm_campaign=customers&utm_medium=email&utm_source=webopsweekly) Codeship is a hosted Continuous Integration and Delivery platform focusing on speed, security, and customizability. Join customers like CareerBuilder and Product Hunt and deploy your projects multiple times per day with Codeship! Codeshipsponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/89eabf65.png)](https://codeship.com/?utm_campaign=customers&utm_medium=email&utm_source=webopsweekly) [How Fast Is Fast Enough (for a Web Page to Load)?](http://www.soasta.com/blog/website-monitoring-fast-enough-user-experience/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) When it comes to delivering the best possible user experience, there’s no single answer as people’s patience varies depending on context. Tammy Everts [Heroku's New Dynos and Pricing Now Generally Available](https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2015/6/15/dynos-pricing-ga?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) After a beta and much speculation, Heroku has unveiled their new dynos and pricing scheme. You will need to migrate away from any existing ‘traditional’ dynos by January 31, 2016. Heroku [RequestHub: Receive, Log, and Proxy HTTP requests](https://github.com/kyledayton/requesthub?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Inspired by RequestBin, RequestHub receives HTTP requests, can display them in your browser, and forward them to other URLs. It’s written in Go so is easily deployed. Kyle Dayton [The Chrome Filmstrip and Improving Page Speed](http://damonbauer.me/chrome-filmstrip/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) The ‘filmstrip’, a feature you can enable in Chrome Canary, shows a series of images of how a page rendered at specific points in the page load process. Damon Bauer [Building the Fast New MSN.com](https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=A115415BEE319427!1232607=file,pptx=PowerPoint=!AJWDn7UlNx8zMTM&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) slides A slide deck from O’Reilly Velocity that quickly covers some of the performance practices and considerations taken into account during MSN.com’s redevelopment. Amiya Gupta [Let’s Talk About Best Practices for EC2's Spot Instances](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/focusing-on-spot-instances-lets-talk-about-best-practices/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) ‘Spot instances’ provide a mechanism for bidding on cheaper latent capacity on EC2. Jeff Barr is planning to share some best practices on using the spot instances system over time and starts off gently here. Amazon Web Services [Scaling Wix to 60M Users: From Monolith to Microservices](http://stackshare.io/wix/scaling-wix-to-60m-users---from-monolith-to-microservices?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Yoav Abrahami, Chief Architect at Wix, shares the architectural and management background to his company’s popular cloud-based webdev platform. StackShare In brief [30% of Servers are Sitting 'Comatose'](http://anthesisgroup.com/30-of-servers-are-sitting-comatose/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Anthesis Group [HTTP/2 Picks Up Steam with iOS 9's Support](https://lukasa.co.uk/2015/06/HTTP2_Picks_Up_Steam_iOS9/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news “Having just tested in the new Xcode, I can tell you that iOS supports HTTP/2, not just in Safari but also in apps.” Cory Benfield [Linode Transitioning from Xen to KVM](https://blog.linode.com/2015/06/16/linode-turns-12-heres-some-kvm/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Linode [AWS Lambda Now Let's You Run Java Code in Response to Events](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-lambda-update-run-java-code-in-response-to-events/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Previously was focused on Node.js, but now supports Java too. Amazon Web Services [H2O HTTP/2 Server 1.3.0 Released](http://blog.kazuhooku.com/2015/06/h2o-http2-server-version-130-released.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Provides faster responses, adds support for FastCGI and range-request. Kazuho Oku [Speed Index – How It Works and What It Means](https://www.nccgroup.trust/uk/about-us/newsroom-and-events/blogs/2015/june/speed-index--how-it-works-and-what-it-means/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial NCC Group [How to Use Rust with Node.js When Performance Matters](http://blog.risingstack.com/how-to-use-rust-with-node-when-performance-matters/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial RisingStack [Implementing Cron with AWS Data Pipeline and AWS ECS](https://alexcsantos.wordpress.com/2015/06/21/cron-with-aws-data-pipeline-and-aws-ecs/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Alex Santos [Using Chrome DevTools to Profile The JSConf.eu Site](https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=13=QU1JAW5LRKU&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video Paul Lewis [Behind the Stack of JavaScript.com](https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/guest-post-behind-the-stack-of-javascript-com/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) DigitalOcean [Comparing Triton Containers to VMs and Bare Metal Servers](https://www.joyent.com/blog/understanding-triton-containers?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Joyent [How Atlassian Does Continuous Delivery](http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/06/Steve-Smith-Continuous-Delivery?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) InfoQ [Why Site Speed Matters in Conversion Rate Optimization](http://blog.crazyegg.com/2015/06/22/site-speed-matters-cro/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion A few high level ideas and techniques. The Daily Egg [Gatling: A High Performance Web Server](http://www.fefe.de/gatling/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Felix von Leitner [Gor: HTTP Traffic Replay in Real-Time](https://github.com/buger/gor/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools An HTTP traffic replication tool written in Go that can replay traffic from production to staging and dev environments. Leonid Bugaev [Servasm: A Simple Web Server Written in Literate x86](https://zarkzork.com/servasm.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Not for production, but an interesting learning experience. Vladimir Terekhov    [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/20) [See our archives](http://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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