---
title: "Issue 22: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 22
published_at: "2015-07-08"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/22"
---

WebOps Weekly 22   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/22) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 22 — July 8, 2015     

[An Analysis of Reddit's Poor JavaScript Performance on Mobile](https://github.com/reddit/reddit-mobile/issues/247?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Google’s Paul Irish takes an interesting dive into the performance characteristics of the new mobile Reddit site and works out why images are taking up to 45 seconds to load. A great look into how a performance professional analyzes a Web performance problem. Paul Irish [Handling 1 Million Requests per Minute with Go](http://marcio.io/2015/07/handling-1-million-requests-per-minute-with-golang/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) An engineer needed to build a system that could handle a heavy load (telemetry data POSTed from millions of endpoints). Here’s his story of how he iterated on a solution using Go. Marcio Castilho [The Cost of the 'S' in HTTPS [PDF\]](https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dnaylor/CostOfTheS.pdf?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) An academic paper that attempts to shed some light on the latency, infrastructure, data, and energy costs of HTTPS vs HTTP. Naylor, Finamore, et al.​ [Unleash your code with the leading Docker PaaS](https://deis.com/learn?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Deis is an open source self service platform that makes it easy to deploy and manage applications on your own servers. Deis builds upon Docker and CoreOs to provide a lightweight PaaS with a flexible workflow. [Learn more about Deis.](https://deis.com/learn) Engineyardsponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/d90a30be.png)](https://deis.com/learn?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) [Ask HN: What Is The Actual Purpose of Docker?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9844806&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion An extensive discussion on Hacker News about the value that Docker provides and where its container-based approach fits into the busy world of virtualization. Hacker News [Boom Speed: How to Improve Your Site Performance](https://blog.dapulse.com/boom-speed-improve-site-performance/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A variety of maxims, ideas, and insights into keeping users happy with what the author calls the ‘BOOM effect.’ Eran Zinman [Discussing HTTP/2 with Ilya Grigorik](https://changelog.com/161/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A great (audio) interview with Google’s Ilya Grigorik on everything around HTTP/2 — the spec, history, SPDY, HTTP/2 semantics, pipelining, multiplexing, and more. One for your lunchbreak or commute. The Changelog [What Was The Stack Beind The Original Ultima Online Servers?](http://www.quora.com/What-was-the-technology-stack-driving-the-original-Ultima-Online-servers?share=1&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Some interesting history given the game first came out in 1997. Quora [It’s 2015 — You’d Think We’d Have Figured Out How To Measure Web Traffic By Now](http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-we-still-cant-agree-on-web-metrics/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Sam Dean presents a high level story and reflections on why Web users are still so tricky to track. FiveThirtyEight Jobs [Join the Stormpath DevOps Systems Engineering Team](http://www.jobscore.com/jobs2/stormpath/devops-systems-engineer/awUHwKaber5AyUiGalkWKP?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Tackle cloud scalability challenges using Linux, AWS, Chef and Docker with a friendly team of smart people. Let's talk. Stormpath In brief [Revving Up JavaScript Performance (in Chrome) with TurboFan](http://blog.chromium.org/2015/07/revving-up-javascript-performance-with.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Chromium Blog [DigitalOcean Raises $83M in Series B Funding](https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/series-b-funding-writing-a-new-chapter-in-the-digitalocean-story/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news DigitalOcean [10 Ways to Minimize Reflows and Improve Performance](http://www.sitepoint.com/10-ways-minimize-reflows-improve-performance/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Some handy tips for making a web page more responsive. Craig Buckler [Making Logs Awesome: Elasticsearch in the Cloud using Docker](http://jamesthom.as/blog/2015/07/08/making-logs-awesome-with-elasticsearch-and-docker/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial James Thomas [From Local Development to Remote Deployment with Docker Machine and Compose](https://developer.rackspace.com/blog/dev-to-deploy-with-docker-machine-and-compose/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Rackspace [Persistent Backend Selection using Cookies With NGINX](http://syshero.org/post/123124082042/persistent-backend-selection-using-cookies-with?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Cassiano Aquino [Web Performance Lessons from a Triathlete](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1IDmrwjSks=1=PL055Epbe6d5Y5glDC8cTbcrQhdMYSIt4d&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video Tana Jackson presents a 5 minute Ignite talk. Ignite Velocity San Jose 2015 [Introducing Disque: An Open Source Message Broker From The Creator of Redis](http://www.thedotpost.com/2015/06/salvatore-sanfilippo-introducing-disque?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video Salvatore Sanfilippo [Amazon T2 “Burstable” Instance Behaviour with High-Availability Traffic](http://lonelycode.com/2015/07/08/amazon-t2-burstable-instance-behaviour-with-high-availability-traffic-an-experiment/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion The characteristics of these instances under heavy load is worth being aware of. Lonely Code [10 Reasons To Use HTTPS](https://medium.com/@guypod/10-reasons-to-go-https-a2cba5734bb6?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion As if you needed any more convincing ;-) Guy Podjarny [An Apple Push Notifications Debugging Story](https://thelig.ht/apns3/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Rian Hunter [Start Managing Your Logs Prevent Errors For Free](https://www.loggly.com/webops-weekly/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2) tools Discover how you can find the root cause for specific errors before they become problems. Start free. Logglysponsored [Why We Wrote Dusty](http://tech.gc.com/why-we-wrote-dusty/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Dusty is a new tool for running Docker-powered development environments on OS X. Travis Thieman [nginx-indexer: Custom NGINX Indexer](https://github.com/tuxy/nginx-indexer?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code github.​com    [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/22) [See our archives](http://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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