---
title: "Issue 25: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 25
published_at: "2015-07-29"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/25"
---

WebOps Weekly 25   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/25) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 25 — July 29, 2015     

[High Performance Servers Without The Event Loop](http://go-talks.appspot.com/github.com/davecheney/presentations/performance-without-the-event-loop.slide?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email#1) slidedeck Well produced slides looking at why the ‘free lunch’ of Moore’s Law is over and concurrent programming languages are required to get the most out of today’s hardware. Dave Cheney [rwasa: High Performance Web Server written in x86_64](https://2ton.com.au/rwasa/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools An HTTP server (with TLS support) entirely written in assembly language with the goal of being faster than nginx. 2 Ton Digital [Profiling JavaScript Performance in Chrome](http://www.sitepoint.com/video-profiling-javascript-performance-in-chrome/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video A look into Chrome Developer Tools’ Profiler and how you can use it to analyze the performance of JavaScript running in the browser. SitePoint [VividCortex - The New Face of Database Monitoring](http://t.sidekickopen13.com/e1t/c/5/f18dQhb0S7lC8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9nMJW7t5XYg4WJ3rsN6448bPf6xSsW2BgSpx56dQQddQpf6002?t=https%3A%2F%2Fvividcortex.com%2F%3Futm_source%3Dpaid%26utm_medium%3Dwow&si=6148852320567296&pi=854ab208-bfd8-4382-ea8c-3f1e50705728) VividCortex is smart database monitoring for modern data systems. It goes beyond charts and graphs to measure the work being done by your system, saving you time and money so you can delight customers. Our site is also full of free resources on MySQL, optimizing app performance & more. VividCortexsponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/5d194024.png)](http://t.sidekickopen13.com/e1t/c/5/f18dQhb0S7lC8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9nMJW7t5XYg4WJ3rsN6448bPf6xSsW2BgSpx56dQQddQpf6002?t=https%3A%2F%2Fvividcortex.com%2F%3Futm_source%3Dpaid%26utm_medium%3Dwow&si=6148852320567296&pi=854ab208-bfd8-4382-ea8c-3f1e50705728) [Why Docker is Not Yet Succeeding Widely in Production](http://sirupsen.com/production-docker/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) An opinion piece by an engineer at Shopify which mostly rests on Docker’s (and containerization’s) relative youth compared to mature deployment technologies. Simon concludes: “I’m excited for the future—but we’ve still got a lot of work left to make production more accessible.” Simon Hørup Eskildsen [How Amazon Web Services Isn't Winning and the Problems it Poses](http://thenewstack.io/amazon-web-services-isnt-winning-problems-poses/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A look at AWS’s steps towards ‘serverless’ infrastructure and how it compares to Parse. The New Stack [Kontena: Application Containers for the Masses](http://www.kontena.io/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Open source tools for deploying, managing, scaling and monitoring containerized applications on any cloud infrastructure. Kontena [Performance Testing Results of Adaptive Media Streaming over HTTP/2](http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2015/07/performance-testing-results-of-adaptive-media-streaming-over-http?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Following a successful public trial involving HTTP/2 the BBC presents the results of some performance testing carried out in an internal controlled environment. BBC R Blog [Chrome 44 (Was) Sending HTTPs Header By Mistake, Breaking Numerous Webapps](https://ma.ttias.be/chrome-44-sending-https-header-by-mistake-breaking-web-applications-everywhere/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Things move quickly though and Chrome has already been updated as of version 44.0.2403.107. Mattia Geniar In brief [Mobile Page Bloat: The Average Page Served to Mobile Is 3X Bigger Than 4 Years Ago](http://www.soasta.com/blog/mobile-web-performance-page-bloat-july-2015/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Tammy Everts [The new .NET MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – ‘Situation Critical’](http://www.red-gate.com/products/dotnet-development/ants-performance-profiler/entrypage/mission-impossible/situation-critical?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email&utm_content=mission_impossible_m1&utm_campaign=antsperformanceprofiler&utm_term=e) tools Find out why ANTS Performance Profiler is the ultimate .NET profiler in a new online adventure. [Read it now.](http://www.red-gate.com/products/dotnet-development/ants-performance-profiler/entrypage/mission-impossible/situation-critical?utm_source=webopsweekly=displayemail=mission_impossible_m1=antsperformanceprofiler=e) Red Gate Softwaresponsored [Measuring Performance in a Service Worker](https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/07/measuring-performance-in-a-service-worker?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Paul Kinlan [Detecting VPN and Proxy Users On The Server Side](https://medium.com/@ValdikSS/detecting-vpn-and-its-configuration-and-proxy-users-on-the-server-side-1bcc59742413?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial ValdikSS [An A+ HTTPS site for $20](http://textslashplain.com/2015/07/23/an-a-https-site-for-20/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Eric Lawrence [Your Server Is Not A Pet](https://www.madetech.com/news/your-server-is-not-a-pet?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion “You should treat your servers as cattle, not as pets.” Chris Blackburn [6 Rules of Thumb to Build Blazing Fast Web Applications](http://loige.co/6-rules-of-thumb-to-build-blazing-fast-web-applications/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Luciano Mammino [Your Lead Architect Doesn't Really Understand Microservices](http://thenewstack.io/genius-techie-doesnt-really-understand-cloud/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion The New Stack [Docker Containers, Bamboo, and Winning At Continuous Delivery](http://blogs.atlassian.com/2015/06/docker-containers-bamboo-winning-continuous-delivery/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Atlassian Blogs [Don't Get Too Caught Up With Containers and Microservices](http://thenewstack.io/dont-get-too-caught-up-with-containers-and-microservices/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion The New Stack [Omnibus: Dependency Isolation Without Docker](https://blog.barricade.io/omnibus-dependency-isolation-without-docker/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools opinion Ross Duggan [Bosun: An Open Source Monitoring and Alerting System](http://bosun.org/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools The folks at Stack Exchange (best known for Stack Overflow) have built a time series alerting framework in Go. Stack Exchange [4 Tools We Wish We'd Known About Earlier](https://certsimple.com/blog/new-ssl-tools?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Quick reminders of four useful tools that can be used when working with SSL, diagnosing problems or inspecting packets. CertSimple [Professional private code hosting for developers teams](https://www.codebasehq.com/t/webopsweekly?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Codebase offers fast reliable hosting for Git, HG SVN repos with project management built-in. 50% off first 3 months with code RUBYWEEKLY. Codebasesponsored [libmill: Go-Style Concurrency in C](http://libmill.org/tutorial.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code tutorial Used for building TCP servers in this tutorial. libmill.​org [WSD (WebSocket Debugger): Like curl, But For WebSockets](https://github.com/alexanderGugel/wsd?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Alexander Gugel [Get A Redis: One Click, Docker-Based Auto Scaling Redis Host Implemented in Go](https://github.com/MohamedBassem/getaredis?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Mohamed Bassem    [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/25) [See our archives](http://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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