--- title: "Issue 29: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news" publication: "StatusCode Weekly" issue: 29 published_at: "2015-08-26" canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/29" --- WebOps Weekly 29 . The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/29) [![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 29 — August 26, 2015 [Measuring Web Performance](http://www.soasta.com/blog/measuring-web-performance-video/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video A 5 minute animated video about the history of performance monitoring, as well as a layperson-friendly overview of how Navigation Timing, Resource Timing and User Timing work. Cliff Crocker [In Search of Performance - How We Shaved 200ms Off Every POST Request](https://gocardless.com/blog/in-search-of-performance-how-we-shaved-200ms-off-every-post-request/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) An engineering team found that HAProxy was having a major impact on Elasticsearch query response times. HAProxy 1.4.19 added a feature to resolve this and a simple upgrade shaved 200ms off the average request. GoCardless [Solving The OPTIONS Performance Issue with Single Page Apps](http://www.soasta.com/blog/options-web-performance-with-single-page-applications/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A look at the performance of SPAs when CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) and the extra HTTP requests it requires comes into play. Philip Tellis and Matt Aimonetti [DNS User Guide: How does your DNS resolution affect your end users’ experiences?](http://pages.catchpoint.com/DNS-User-Guide-eBook.html?LSD=SPON=WebOpsWeekly&utm_channel=Sponsorship&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=WebOpsWeekly&utm_campaign=DNSeBook) There’s more to know about DNS besides the fact that it’s important to your website infrastructure, like how and why the quality of a DNS resolution impacts user experiences. Download our eBook for tips and strategies to improve DNS performance. Catchpoint Systems Inc.​ sponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/4ae6d858.png)](http://pages.catchpoint.com/DNS-User-Guide-eBook.html?LSD=SPON=WebOpsWeekly&utm_channel=Sponsorship&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=WebOpsWeekly&utm_campaign=DNSeBook) [Heroku Introduces Improved Performance Dynos](http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2015/8/20/introducing-improved-performance-dynos?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Heroku’s existing performance dyno has been renamed and improved and now has 14GB of RAM, and there’s an all new ‘Performance M’ dyno with 2.5GB of RAM. Heroku [Running a High Traffic Rails App on Heroku’s Performance Dynos](https://blog.growth.supply/running-a-high-traffic-rails-app-on-heroku-s-performance-dynos-d9e6833d34c4?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) An engineer at Product Hunt demonstrates how Heroku’s new ‘Performance’ dynos are a great fit for higher end Heroku users currently using a large number of smaller dynos. Mike Coutermarsh [HTTP/2 Technology Demo](http://www.http2demo.io/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools A test that uses 200 small images to compare HTTP/1.1 loading performance with HTTP/2. CDN77 [A Look At ​Mobile Network Performance in the US](http://www.rootmetrics.com/us/blog/special-reports/2015-1h-national-us?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A well put together and _very_ extensive report based on 6.1 million tests performed. Verizon seems to win across the board. Dave Andersen [23 Stats You Should Know About Mobile Web Performance](http://www.soasta.com/blog/23-stats-mobile-web-performance-monitoring/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Includes things like reliance on phones, how a 1 second delay hurts mobile metrics, and how many users max out their data cap. SOASTA [Zero Downtime Deployment with AWS ECS and ELB](http://blog.codeship.com/zero-downtime-deployment-with-aws-ecs-and-elb/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Deploying updates without disruption is a much desired practice. Amazon’s EC2 Container Service helps make that easier with its tight Elastic Load Balancer integration. Barry Jones Jobs [Freelance with Companies like Airbnb, IDEO, & JPMorgan](http://www.toptal.com/developers?utm_source=webops_weekly&utm_medium=cpm-newsletter&utm_campaign=webops_weekly_job) Work with top clients, set your own rates, and work from anywhere as an elite Toptal developer. Join the most exclusive network of top software engineers in the world. Toptal In brief [Netflix to Pull Plug on Final Data Center](http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2015/08/13/netflix-to-pull-plug-on-final-data-center/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news The CIO Report [First Implementation of requestIdleCallback in Chrome Canary](https://plus.google.com/+IlyaGrigorik/posts/bPNjgMwcMKs?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news requestIdleCallback lets webapps schedule background tasks so they don’t compete with high priority or intensive tasks. Ilya Grigorik [7 Security Measures to Protect your Servers](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/7-security-measures-to-protect-your-servers?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial DigitalOcean [Installing NGINX and NGINX Plus With Ansible](https://www.nginx.com/blog/installing-nginx-nginx-plus-ansible/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial NGINX [Single Sign-on for Java in 20 Minutes with Spring Boot and Heroku](https://stormpath.com/blog/spring-boot_id-site_heroku/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Micah Silverman [Compiling Third-Party Modules Into Nginx](https://serversforhackers.com/compiling-third-party-modules-into-nginx?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Servers for Hackers [Minimizing SVG files](http://www.amooma.de/2015/08/24/minimize-svg-files.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Stefan Wintermeyer [Create Custom AWS ECS Schedulers With ecs_state](http://williamthurston.com/2015/08/20/create-custom-aws-ecs-schedulers-with-ecs-state.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial tools ecs_state jelps manage the state of an ECS cluster to allow for simpler scheduler creation. William Thurston [Why Every Site Should Switch to HTTPS](https://opensource.com/business/15/8/interview-daniel-roesler-utilityapi?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion OpenSource.​com [How A Hack Day Project Made Mobile Pages Six Times Faster](http://www.schibsted.pl/2015/08/how-this-team-made-mobile-pages-for-2-million-norwegians-six-times-faster/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Schibsted Tech Polska [Professional private code hosting for developers & teams](https://www.codebasehq.com/t/webopsweekly?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Codebase offers fast and reliable hosting for Git, HG and SVN repos with project management built-in. 50% off first 3 months with code RUBYWEEKLY. Codebasesponsored [Amazon EC2 Spot Bid Advisor](https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot/bid-advisor/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools The Spot Bid Advisor analyzes EC2 ‘spot instance’ price history to help you determine a bid price that suits your needs. Amazon [Monitor Your AWS Account to Detect Suspicious Behavior in Real Time](https://cloudonaut.io/monitor-your-aws-account-to-detect-suspicious-behavior-in-real-time/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Michael Wittig [Jungle: A CLI Tool for Simpler Operations on AWS](https://github.com/achiku/jungle?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Akira Chiku [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/29) [See our archives](http://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*) [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*) Published by [Cooperpress](https://cooperpress.com/) Fairfield Enterprise Centre, Lincoln Way, Louth, LN11 0LS, UK