---
title: "Issue 26: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 26
published_at: "2015-08-05"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/26"
---

WebOps Weekly 26   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/26) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 26 — August 5, 2015     

[NGINX Announces an Early Alpha Patch for HTTP/2 Support](https://www.nginx.com/blog/early-alpha-patch-http2/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) NGINX has shared the first version of an early alpha-level patch that enables HTTP/2 support in the popular HTTP server. Includes full configuration and installation instructions. NGINX [Let's Talk About Web Performance](http://ponyfoo.com/articles/talk-about-web-performance?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Nicolas Bevacqua reflects on some talks he’s been giving about Web performance, looks at several tools and tactics he recommends people use to monitor their own site’s performance, and plugs [his book.](http://www.manning.com/bevacqua/?a_aid=go&a_bid=e6de0d9d) Nicolas Bevacqua [Who Needs WebSockets in an HTTP/2 World?](https://bloggeek.me/websockets-http2/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) “We essentially now have both HTTP/2 and WebSocket capable of pretty much the same things.” Tsahi Levent-Levi [Do You Know What Your Users Are Doing?](http://pages.catchpoint.com/OpsCast-Performance-Monitoring.html?LSD=SPON-WebOpsWeekly&utm_source=sponsorship&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WebOpsWeekly) Running your website without a monitoring strategy is like shooting darts in the dark—the probability of hitting your target is slim to none. Register for our webinar to learn how using a third party performance monitoring solution can give you the data you need to optimize your site and deliver great user experiences. Catchpoint Systems Incsponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/c638e8b7.png)](http://pages.catchpoint.com/OpsCast-Performance-Monitoring.html?LSD=SPON-WebOpsWeekly&utm_source=sponsorship&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WebOpsWeekly) [Designing for Performance](http://designingforperformance.com/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) You can now read all of Lara Hogan’s fine book on balancing aesthetics and performance on Web sites, as published by O’Reilly, for free online. Lara Hogan [Netflix at Velocity 2015: Linux Performance Tools](http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/08/netflix-at-velocity-2015-linux.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video There are many performance tools nowadays for Linux, but how do they all fit together, and when do we use them? Brendan Gregg shares his 90 minute Velocity session on the topic. The Netflix Tech Blog [Performance Testing in the Cloud with JMeter and EC2](http://www.artofsoftwaredevelopment.com/performance/performance-testing-in-the-cloud-with-jmeter-aws?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial JMeter is a tool to stress test your website and your application architecture but it works best if you can run it from numerous machines simultaneously. For that, Amazon’s EC2 comes in handy. Marcel Folaron [Amazon EC2 Benchmark: Testing Speeds Between EC2 and S3 Regions](http://blog.takipi.com/amazon-ec2-2015-benchmark-testing-speeds-between-aws-ec2-and-s3-regions/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A company shares some stats behind their testing aimed at working out where best to place their EC2 instances (spoiler: they chose Virginia). Alex Zhitnitsky In brief [Typekit Rolls Out New Embed Code for Asynchronous Font Loading](http://blog.typekit.com/2015/08/04/new-embed-code-for-asynchronous-font-loading/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Typekit [Case Study: Ads Increase Page Latency by 40 Percent](http://rigor.com/blog/2015/06/ads-increase-latency-by-40-percent?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Chapman Lever [Pageload Perf Audits with DevTools Filmstrip in Chrome](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCfF6HI0JKs&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video Paul Irish [What the Heck is OAuth?](https://stormpath.com/blog/what-the-heck-is-oauth/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=what-is-oauth-blog) tutorial There’s a lot of confusion around what OAuth actually is. Learn if you need it, which grant flow to use and how to implement it. Stormpathsponsored [Understanding Proxy Browsers: Architecture](http://timkadlec.com/2015/07/understanding-proxy-browsers-architecture/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Tim Kadlec [How to Monitor Varnish](https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/how-to-monitor-varnish/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Varnish is a popular caching reverse-proxy web application accelerator. Datadog [Seven of The Nastiest Anti-Patterns in Microservices](http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/8/3/seven-of-the-nastiest-anti-patterns-in-microservices.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Summary of a talk called The Seven Deadly Sins of Microservices: Redux, plus a link to the video. High Scalability [Windows 10 Launch Could Seriously Break The Internet, Could Peak At 40Tb/s](http://blog.streamingmedia.com/2015/07/windows-10-launch-huge-traffic.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion The Internet didn’t break, of course, but some interesting numbers anyway. Dan Rayburn [Is It Me, or Is The Web Getting Slower?](http://www.borland.com/Blog/July-2015/is-it-me-or-is-the-web-getting-slower?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Gregor Rechberger [Docker Misconceptions](https://valdhaus.co/writings/docker-misconceptions/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Matt Jaynes [CVE-2015-5477 (BIND DNS DoS) Scanning Tool](https://scan.patrolserver.com/bind/CVE-2015-5477?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Test your server for the TKEY vulnerability. PatrolServer [Codeship launches Organizations Plans](https://codeship.com/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Organizations) tools Create teams, set permissions for specific team members, and improve collaboration in your Continuous Delivery workflow. With Codeship's new Organizations plans, you can get centralized control over your organization’s projects and teams. Codeshipsponsored [serve2d: A Protocol Detecting Server](https://github.com/joushou/serve2d?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code The idea is you could run all of your server’s services off a single port. Kenny Levinsen [Bare Auth: A Ready-to-Deploy Stateless Authentication Server](https://github.com/lapwinglabs/bare-auth?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Matthew Mueller [A Pinterest Board of Web Performance Infographics](https://www.pinterest.com/perfplanet/wpo-infographics/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Pinterest    [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/26) [See our archives](http://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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