---
title: "Issue 3: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 3
published_at: "2015-02-25"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/3"
---

WebOps Weekly 3   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/3) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 3 — February 25, 2015     

[Do The ChaCha: Better Mobile Performance with Cryptography](https://blog.cloudflare.com/do-the-chacha-better-mobile-performance-with-cryptography/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) CloudFlare has enabled a new type of encryption (technically, some new ciphersuites) on its HTTPS offering which makes things faster for mobile clients. This looks at what’s involved. CloudFlare [Handling Five Billion Sessions A Day – in Real Time](https://blog.twitter.com/2015/handling-five-billion-sessions-a-day-in-real-time?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A look at the tech behind a high scale service that handles hundreds of thousands of requests every second. Twitter Engineering [Font Loading Revisited with Font Events](http://www.filamentgroup.com/lab/font-events.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial A look at loading Web fonts in a better performance manner while avoiding the ‘flash of invisible text’ issue which can hide text for seconds. Filament Group [Introducing Orbit from Brightbox](https://www.brightbox.com/cloud/storage/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Orbit is the new highly durable and “Geo-redundant” object store from Brightbox. Files are automatically distributed over multiple devices and multiple UK datacentres. Priced at 5p per GB/month. [Try it now with £20 free credit.](https://www.brightbox.com/cloud/storage/) Brightboxsponsored[![\](http://s3.amazonaws.com/nlga/uploads/item/image/33795/i.png)](https://www.brightbox.com/cloud/storage/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) [Join the Battle for Net Neutrality](https://www.battleforthenet.com/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news If you’re in the US, a day remains to persuade Congress to save net neutrality. Battle for the Net [Scaling Kim Kardashian to 100 Million Page Views](http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/2/16/scaling-kim-kardashian-to-100-million-page-views.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Remember _that_ recent Kim Kardashian photo? Its publishers knew it’d get a ton of traffic so how did they cope? High Scalability [Comparing DNS Root Server Performance Around the World](https://blog.thousandeyes.com/comparing-dns-root-server-performance/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) DNS is the first step in many Web requests, but the speed with which you can access a root server varies. Mehmet Akcin [Google Webfonts, The Spy Inside?](http://fontfeed.com/archives/google-webfonts-the-spy-inside/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion A look at the privacy implications of using Google’s popular fonts service. The FontFeed [websocketd: Think CGI, but for WebSockets](http://websocketd.com/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools websocketd provides programs in all manner of other languages an easy way to become WebSocket enabled. websocketd.​com [The SSL Performance Myth and Tips for Making Secure Connections Fast](https://www.maxcdn.com/blog/ssl-performance-myth/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) MaxCDN In brief [Firefox 36 Arrives with Full HTTP/2 Support](http://venturebeat.com/2015/02/24/firefox-36-arrives-with-full-http2-support-and-a-new-design-for-android-tablets/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news VentureBeat [HTTP Strict Transport Security comes to Internet Explorer](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2015/02/16/http-strict-transport-security-comes-to-internet-explorer.aspx?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news IEBlog [Lenovo Is Breaking HTTPS Security on its Recent Laptops](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/further-evidence-lenovo-breaking-https-security-its-laptops?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Electronic Frontier Foundation [Google Launches Cloud Security Scanner for App Engine Devs to Find Vulnerabilities](http://venturebeat.com/2015/02/19/google-launches-cloud-security-scanner-to-let-app-engine-developers-find-common-vulnerabilities-in-their-apps/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news VentureBeat [AWS Cost Explorer Update – More Filtering and Grouping Dimensions](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-cost-explorer-update-more-filtering-and-grouping-dimensions/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Amazon Web Services [Deploying Go applications to Azure Websites](http://www.jayway.com/2015/02/16/deploying-go-applications-azure-websites/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Through the recently released HttpPlatformHandler, Azure Websites (and, indeed, IIS generally) can host any HTTP-based application, including those written in Go. Hang Ruan [Access Private Docker Repos & Mount Volumes in Containers on EC2 Container Service](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-container-service-ecs-update-access-private-docker-repos-mount-volumes-in-containers/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Amazon Web Services [The Making of Microsoft’s First Official Docker Image](https://ahmetalpbalkan.com/blog/making-of-aspnet-docker-image/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Ahmet Alp Balkan [Web Performance: Past, Present, and Future](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9x_2qis9CI&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video _Note: The audio isn’t great._ Matt Shull [RancherOS: A Minimalist Linux Distribution for Running Docker Containers](http://rancher.com/rancher-os/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Rancher [H2O 1.0.0: An HTTP 2.0 Server](http://blog.kazuhooku.com/2015/02/h2o-new-http-server-goes-version-100-as.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Kazuho's Weblog [wsproxy: Websocket Proxy Server written in Haskell](https://github.com/nathankot/wsproxy?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Nathan Kot [picfit: An Image Resizing Server Written in Go](https://medium.com/@thoas/introduction-to-picfit-an-image-resizing-server-written-in-go-c8320c017d41?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Florent Messa Jobs [Software Engineer, Platform Engineering, at Apple, Inc.](http://goo.gl/D6tH41) We are looking for a software engineer with an expert mindset to help us develop reliable, high-quality systems to manage deployments and infrastructure for Apple Maps. 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