---
title: "Issue 23: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 23
published_at: "2015-07-15"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/23"
---

WebOps Weekly 23   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/23) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 23 — July 15, 2015     

[Online HTTP Security Report Tool](https://httpsecurityreport.com/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Get an instant report of how a site measures up to best practices. Looks at things like XSS, HTTP Strict Transport Security, TLS, secure cookies, etc. HTTP Security Report [Amazon API Gateway: Build and Run Scalable Application Backends](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-api-gateway-build-and-run-scalable-application-backends/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news A new pay as you go service from Amazon for offering managed, public APIs to implementations running on Lambda, EC2, or other servers. This could change the way many build and deploy apps online. Amazon [Performance: Showing Versus Telling](http://alistapart.com/article/performance-showing-versus-telling?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Lara Hogan looks at the art of communicating the importance of Web performance to stakeholders and the power of visualizing performance factors in that. Lara Hogan [Is Your Site Covered? Join a RUM + Synthetic Webinar](http://pages.catchpoint.com/OpsCast-RUM-Synthetic.html?LSD=SPON-WebOpsWeekly&utm_source=sponsorship&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WebOpsWeekly) Join our OpsCast, _RUM + Synthetic: Filling the Gaps with Complete Monitoring_, on July 16 at 2PM (EST) to learn how to pair synthetic and RUM monitoring for a comprehensive monitoring solution. You'll learn how synthetic monitoring and RUM provide complete web performance insight, how to create an effective troubleshooting workflow, and the ramifications of incomplete monitoring. Catchpoint Systems Incsponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/fc41f111.png)](http://pages.catchpoint.com/OpsCast-RUM-Synthetic.html?LSD=SPON-WebOpsWeekly&utm_source=sponsorship&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WebOpsWeekly) [HTTP/2 Adoption Is Still Low At 0.4%, But Growing Fast](http://w3techs.com/blog/entry/http2_adoption_is_still_low_at_0_4_but_growing_fast_thanks_to_litespeed?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) But used by 7.5% of the top 1000 sites. Further, 96.5% of all HTTP/2 sites are allegedly running on the LiteSpeed server. Matthias Gelbmann [Kubernetes v1.0 now on GitHub, and KubeCon](http://thenewstack.io/kubernetes-v1-0-now-on-github-and-kubecon/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Kubernetes is Google’s open source multi-host container management toolset. 1.0 is now available, although the official launch will be coming at OSCON next week. The New Stack [How to Monitor NGINX](https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/how-to-monitor-nginx/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) The first in a (completed) three part series on NGINX monitoring. This first outing looks at basic activity and performance metrics you can work with. K Young [Announcing O’Reilly’s New Book: “NGINX: A Practical Guide to High Performance”](https://www.nginx.com/blog/announcing-oreillys-new-book-nginx-a-practical-guide-to-high-performance/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Rather awesomely, you can pick up [a preview edition](https://www.nginx.com/oreilly-guide/)free. NGINX [More AWS Services, More Choices, and Still a Challenge](http://thenewstack.io/more-aws-services-more-choices-and-still-a-challenge/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Reflections on 4 new Amazon Web Services offerings rapidly announced in quick succession last week. The New Stack [Day One with the Amazon API Gateway](https://blog.hiramsoftware.com/blog/day-one-aws-api-gateway/index.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Reflections on Amazon’s new API Gateway service and two of its major shortcomings. Hiram Software In brief [Bringing Windows Server to Google Cloud Platform](http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/Bringing-Windows-to-Google-Cloud-Platform.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Google Cloud Platform Blog [Now Available – AWS Service Catalog](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-available-aws-service-catalog/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Amazon [GitLab Raises $1.5 Million as Code Sharing and Open Source Gains Acceptance](http://thenewstack.io/gitlab-raises-1-5-million-as-code-sharing-and-open-source-gains-acceptance/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news The New Stack [Leveraging AWS API Gateway and Lambda to Build A Slack Bot](https://mixmax.com/blog/how-to-get-modulusio-webhooks-into-your-slack-channel?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Bringing JavaScript, Modulus and AWS together. Mixmax [Rust in Detail: Writing A Scalable Chat Service from Scratch](http://nbaksalyar.github.io/2015/07/10/writing-chat-in-rust.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial A very in-depth tutorial. Nikita Baksalyar [Working with Unreliable Web APIs](http://blog.instavest.com/working-with-unreliable-web-apis?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Instavest [How to Secure Your Web Applications with NGINX](http://blog.wallarm.com/post/123984434568/how-to-secure-your-web-applications-with-nginx?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial An extensive slidedeck. Wallarm Blog [How Unicorn Talks to Nginx - An Introduction to Unix Sockets in Ruby](http://blog.honeybadger.io/how-unicorn-talks-to-nginx-an-introduction-to-unix-sockets-in-ruby/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Starr Horne [AWS Best Practices for DDoS Resiliency [PDF\]](http://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/DDoS_White_Paper_June2015.pdf?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Amazon Web Services [Price-Performance Cloud Portability: AWS vs. Azure](https://www.cloudyn.com/blog/price-performance-cloud-portability-aws-vs-azure/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Cloudyn [Level up your backend with the best Redis tools and analytics from RedisGreen](http://www.redisgreen.net/docs.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Thousands of apps use RedisGreen to get the best support, analytics, performance and uptime for their Redis servers. Find out what a difference a well-managed in-memory datastore makes. RedisGreensponsored [OpenResty: A Fast Web App Server by Extending Nginx](http://openresty.org/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools openresty.​org [StackHut: Your Code As A Cloud API, Powered by Docker](http://blog.stackhut.com/stackhut/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools news StackHut    [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/23) [See our archives](http://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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