---
title: "Issue 21: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 21
published_at: "2015-07-01"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/21"
---

WebOps Weekly 21   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/21) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 21 — July 1, 2015     

[Understanding HTTP Strict Transport Security and Preloading It Into The Browser](http://www.troyhunt.com/2015/06/understanding-http-strict-transport.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) “As HTTPS becomes more ubiquitous across the web, this feature should really start to gain traction.” Troy Hunt [Steve Souders on 'Design and Performance'](https://angularu.com/VideoSession/2015sf/designperformance?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video Web performance guru Steve Souders explains how a process that brings design and performance together at the beginning of a project helps deliver a web experience that’s both fast and rich. Steve Souders [Scaling the Stack Overflow Monolithic App by Obsessing Over Performance](http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/06/scaling-stack-overflow?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Some insights into Stack Overflow’s performance via David Fullerton’s QCon New York talk. InfoQ [Join OpsCast RUM + Synthetic: Filling the Gaps with Complete Monitoring](http://pages.catchpoint.com/OpsCast-RUM-Synthetic.html?LSD=SPON-WebOpsWeekly&utm_source=sponsorship&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WebOpsWeekly) If you wanted to protect your home, would you install an alarm for only one door? [Join](http://pages.catchpoint.com/OpsCast-RUM-Synthetic.html?LSD=SPON-WebOpsWeekly=sponsorship=email=WebOpsWeekly) our OpsCast on July 16 at 2PM (EST) to understand how to use synthetic and RUM monitoring to create a comprehensive monitoring solution and get complete visibility of your performance. In [this webinar](http://pages.catchpoint.com/OpsCast-RUM-Synthetic.html?LSD=SPON-WebOpsWeekly=sponsorship=email=WebOpsWeekly), you'll learn how synthetic monitoring and RUM provide complete web performance insight, how to create a troubleshooting workflow, and the ramifications of incomplete monitoring. Catchpointsponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/880fac01.jpg)](http://pages.catchpoint.com/OpsCast-RUM-Synthetic.html?LSD=SPON-WebOpsWeekly&utm_source=sponsorship&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WebOpsWeekly) [MySQL Performance Optimization: 50% More Work with 60% Less Latency Variance](http://engineering.pinterest.com/post/122520169079/mysql-performance-optimization-50-more-work-with?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A look at Pinterest’s path to discovering an optimal configuration for its MySQL cluster including benchmark results and what the configuration looks like in [these slides.](http://www.slideshare.net/denshikarasu/all-your-iops-are-belong-to-us-a-pinteresting-case-study-in-mysql-performance-optimization) Pinterest [Browser Progress Bar is an Anti-Pattern](https://www.igvita.com/2015/06/25/browser-progress-bar-is-an-anti-pattern/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) If there is no way to reliably predict how long a page load might take, why do so many browsers still use and show the progress bar? Ilya Grigorik [Avoiding Temptations that Harm Website Performance](http://www.sitepoint.com/avoiding-temptations-harm-website-performance/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) This article describes some of the temptations you’ve probably faced in your web development journey, and why it’s better not to give in to them. Barbara Bermes [Locust: A Modern Load Testing Framework](http://locust.io/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) An open source load testing tool where you define user behaviour with Python code, and then ‘swarm your system’ with potentially millions of simultaneous users. Heyman, Hamrén, Byström and Heyman [How jQuery Handles 15,000 CDN Requests/Sec](https://www.maxcdn.com/blog/maxscale-jquery/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news The Executive Director of the jQuery Foundation is interviewed about how the foundation’s systems scale, how its CDN works, and what the future for jQuery is. MaxCDN Jobs [DevOps / Operations Developer Needed in London, UK](https://composed.recruiterbox.com/jobs/fk0h2jq?utm_medium=email&utm_source=webopsweekly) We’re looking for an experienced operations developer to join a brand new team working on [Composed](https://www.composed.com/), a first of its kind, digital classical music streaming service from Universal Music released in April 2015. Composed In brief [Introducing s2n, a New Open Source TLS Implementation](http://blogs.aws.amazon.com/security/post/TxCKZM94ST1S6Y/Introducing-s2n-a-New-Open-Source-TLS-Implementation?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news A library that has been designed to be small, fast, with simplicity as a priority. Amazon Web Services will begin to use it in numerous places soon. Amazon [Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire OpenDNS](http://newsroom.cisco.com/press-release-content?type=webcontent&articleId=1667697) news Cisco [Microsoft Quietly Pushes 17 New Trusted Root Certificates](http://hexatomium.github.io/2015/06/26/ms-very-quietly-adds-18-new-trusted-root-certs/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Ha [Fix Scrolling Performance with CSS's 'will-change' Property](https://fourword.fourkitchens.com/article/fix-scrolling-performance-css-will-change-property?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Chris Ruppel [Efficient Image Resizing With ImageMagick](http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/06/25/efficient-image-resizing-with-imagemagick/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Smashing Magazine [Performance Testing Firefox OS With Raptor](https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/06/performance-testing-firefox-os-with-raptor/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Mozilla Hacks [Using Nested Selects for Performance in Rails](http://blog.aha.io/index.php/using-nested-selects-for-performance-in-rails/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Zach Schneider [How to Achieve Low Latency with 10Gbps Ethernet](https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-to-achieve-low-latency/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Cloudflare [Analysing Web Performance Data with Julia and D3](https://speakerdeck.com/bluesmoon/d3-and-julia-at-opensourcebridge-2015?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) slides Philip Tellis [Microservice Trade-Offs](http://martinfowler.com/articles/microservice-trade-offs.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Fowler continues with his look at microservices vs monolithic apps with a look at microservices’ pros and cons. Martin Fowler [ES6 Feature Performance](http://www.incaseofstairs.com/2015/06/es6-feature-performance/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion A look at the performance implications of using ES6 (the next version of JavaScript, essentially) specific features. Kevin Decker [Codeship: The fast and customizable Continuous Delivery platform](https://codeship.com/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=webopsweekly) tools 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 [npmanager: An Install Tool for NGINX, PHP, and MariaDB on Debian/Ubuntu](https://github.com/ssut/npmanager?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools SuHun Han [tota11y: An Accessibility Visualization Toolkit](http://khan.github.io/tota11y/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools A tool designed to visualize how your site performs with assistive technologies and let you know about best practices to implement. Khan Academy    [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/21) [See our archives](http://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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