---
title: "Issue 27: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 27
published_at: "2015-08-12"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/27"
---

WebOps Weekly 27   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/27) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 27 — August 12, 2015     

[The Trick Behind Facebook's Fast 200 Byte Preview Photos](https://code.facebook.com/posts/991252547593574/the-technology-behind-preview-photos/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Facebook’s engineering team took on the challenge of delivering fast performance to all users (including those potentially on slow 2G networks) by cramming low fidelity versions of cover photos into 200 bytes. But how.. when a JPEG header is larger than that on its own? Facebook Engineering [Docker 1.8 Released](https://blog.docker.com/2015/08/docker-1-8-content-trust-toolbox-registry-orchestration/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Includes _Content Trust_, a feature that lets you verify the publisher of images; _Toolbox_, a new installer; and updates to the core engine and registry. Docker [Docker Toolbox: A Faster Way to Work with Docker on OS X and Windows](https://blog.docker.com/2015/08/docker-toolbox/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Toolbox is a new installer for OS X and Windows that installs everything you need to get Docker up and running. It replaces the popular Boot2Docker. Docker [In-depth performance metrics for developers](https://opbeat.com/performance//?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=ad&utm_content=&utm_campaign=performance) Opbeat have revamped their free metrics service, adding response time distributions, a full activity breakdown, and the ability to see the actual code that is slowing down the request, where is it called from when it was committed. [Read More](https://opbeat.com/performance//?utm_source=webopsweekly=ad==performance) Opbeatsponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/04b1cd56.png)](https://opbeat.com/performance//?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=ad&utm_content=&utm_campaign=performance) [Performance Without The Event Loop](http://dave.cheney.net/2015/08/08/performance-without-the-event-loop?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A look at how Go helps programmers write highly scalable network servers, without having to worry about thread management or blocking I/O. Dave Cheney [Server-Side Template Injection: RCE for The Modern Webapp [PDF\]](https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-15/materials/us-15-Kettle-Server-Side-Template-Injection-RCE-For-The-Modern-Web-App-wp.pdf?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial A look at Remote Code Execution. James Kettle [Building and Scaling A Cloud Service for Developers](http://cloudinary.com/blog/building_and_scaling_a_service_for_developers_the_bootstrapped_way?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video One of Cloudinary’s founders gave a 45 minute talk on the development of the service. Plentiful notes here too. Cloudinary Blog [Preload Hints For Web Fonts (Eventually, We Hope)](http://www.bramstein.com/writing/preload-hints-for-web-fonts.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Web fonts are lazily loaded by default which has an impact on page performance. ‘Preload hints’ should one day let developers tell browsers to download fonts as soon as possible. Bram Stein In brief [25% of The Web Runs Nginx, Including 46.6% of The Top 10,000 Sites](http://w3techs.com/blog/entry/25_percent_of_the_web_runs_nginx_including_46_6_percent_of_the_top_10000_sites?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Matthias Gelbmann [Netflix.com Adopts Universal JavaScript, Drops Java From Rendering Pipeline](http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/08/netflix-universal-javascript?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news InfoQ [How Google Invented an Amazing Datacenter Network Only They Could Create](http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/8/10/how-google-invented-an-amazing-datacenter-network-only-they.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news High Scalability [Containers and Microservices Make Performance Worse](https://speakerdeck.com/garethr/containers-and-microservices-make-performance-worse?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Slidedeck from a light-hearted talk about how introducing microservices and containers into your infrastructure without due care can hit performance. Gareth Rushgrove [How to Deploy Nginx on Heroku](http://blog.codeship.com/how-to-deploy-nginx-on-heroku/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Benjamin Fritsch [Is There Trouble Brewing in The Land of DevOps?](http://blog.gardeviance.org/2015/08/is-there-trouble-brewing-in-land-of.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Simon Wardley [Serving Files: S3 and High Availability](https://blog.movableink.com/s3-and-high-availability/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Movable Ink [The Ethics of Modern Web Ad-Blocking](http://www.marco.org/2015/08/11/ad-blocking-ethics?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Marco Arment [Ask HN: Best Resources On Webapp Security?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10027055&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Hacker News [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 [Monkey Server 1.6.0 Released: A Fast HTTP Server for Linux, OS X and BSD](http://monkey-project.com/announcements/v1.6.0/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Monkey [toxy: Hackable HTTP Proxy to Simulate Server Failures and Unexpected Conditions](https://github.com/h2non/toxy?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools A Node/io.js based proxy built for fuzzing/’evil’ testing purposes, such as testing fault tolerance and resiliency capabilities of a system, especially in service-oriented architectures. Tomás [JAWS: The JavaScript + AWS Stack](https://github.com/servant-app/JAWS?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools code A server-free, webapp boilerplate using bleeding-edge AWS services that redefine how to build massively scalable web applications. Servant [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=email-23954) 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=email-23954) Red Gate Sotwaresponsored    [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/27) [See our archives](http://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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