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title: "Issue 32: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 32
published_at: "2015-09-16"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/32"
---

WebOps Weekly 32   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/32) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 32 — September 16, 2015     

[How Uber Scales Their Real-Time Market Platform](http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/9/14/how-uber-scales-their-real-time-market-platform.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Notes cribbed from a talk by Uber’s Chief Systems Architect, Matt Ranney. Uber are using a lot of technologies under the hood including Node, Python, Java and Go. High Scalability [How CloudSploit Uses AWS Lambda for Rapidly Intensifying Workloads](http://blog.cloudsploit.com/2015/09/15/how-we-use-lambda/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) CloudSploit is an AWS security scanning service that has worked itself entirely around the Lambda paradigm and in doing so can now rapidly scale to hundreds of requests per second. CloudSploit [The Honest Truth About CDNs](https://www.maxcdn.com/blog/cdn-experts-on-cdns/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Or “What 12 CDN Experts Love and Hate About CDNs”, including some solutions to the issues they raise. MaxCDNs [New: Single Sign-On for Java with Spring Boot](https://stormpath.com/blog/spring-boot_id-site_heroku/?utm_source=web-ops-weekly&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=sso-java-spring-boot-heroku-blog) Check out the new Spring Boot + Stormpath guide to build a modern application complete with user registration, authentication and single sign-on. Better yet, deploy to Heroku and go live in twenty minutes. Stormpathsponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/a3f49db4.png)](https://stormpath.com/blog/spring-boot_id-site_heroku/?utm_source=web-ops-weekly&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=sso-java-spring-boot-heroku-blog) [Anatomy of a Modern Production Stack](http://www.eightypercent.net/post/layers-in-the-stack.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news “This is my view, based on experiences at Google, for a stack that delivers what I’d want for a major production system.” Joe Beda [Building DistributedLog: Twitter’s High-performance Replicated Log Service](https://blog.twitter.com/2015/building-distributedlog-twitter-s-high-performance-replicated-log-service?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A look at DistributedLog, Twitter’s high-performance replicated log service, and how it’s used. Twitter [HTTP is Obsolete. It's Time for The Distributed, Permanent Web](https://blog.neocities.org/its-time-for-the-permanent-web.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Neocities, a sort of 21st century reincarnation of GeoCities, has become the first major site to implement IPFS in production. What’s IFPS? A distributed file system that seeks to share the same file set amongst all participants. Kyle Drake [Common E-Commerce Web Performance Mistakes](http://www.yottaa.com/blog/application-optimization/ecommerce-web-performance-speed-experts-share-common-mistakes-how-to-improve?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) 32 different experts covering both technical and marketing sides of the e-commerce world share common performance mistakes they see on e-commerce sites, and the potential solutions. Yottaa [htty: A Console Application for Interacting with Web Servers](http://htty.github.io/htty/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Billing itself as ‘the HTTP TTY’, htty provides a convenient way to explore web APIs and learn the ins and outs of HTTP. htty Jobs [Join Stormpath as a Java Software Engineer](http://www.jobscore.com/jobs2/stormpath/senior-java-software-engineer/d_6wpmTHCr5kAdiGaltGfR) We’re using Spring, Java, and Cassandra to build a next-generation Identity API. Want to learn more? Stormpath In brief [Mantl Introduces Microservices as a Stack](http://thenewstack.io/mantl-introduces-microservices-stack/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news The New Stack [Codeship opens invitations for its Docker Platform](http://beta.codeship.com/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=workflows) news tools You now can request trial access to Codeship's new Docker Platform. It integrates perfectly with your existing Docker Workflows and helps you automate shipping of your Docker images. Codeshipsponsored [HTTP/2 on IIS](http://blogs.iis.net/davidso/http2?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Windows 10 is now available, and HTTP/2 support is present in Windows 10 and the Server 2016 Technical Preview. David So [Decode Your HTTP Traffic with sysdig](https://sysdig.com/decode-your-http-traffic-with-sysdig/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Loris Degioanni [Amazon Route 53 Announces Calculated and Latency Measurement Health Checks](http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2015/09/amazon-route-53-announces-calculated-and-latency-measurement-health-checks/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Amazon’s DNS service gets two new handy features. Amazon [Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users](http://www.wired.com/2015/09/whatsapp-serves-900-million-users-50-engineers/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Seems to be putting all the credit on Erlang. WIRED [Saving Bandwidth by Using Images the Smart Way](http://www.sitepoint.com/saving-bandwidth-by-using-images-the-smart-way/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial SitePoint [Which Android HTTP Library to Use?](https://packetzoom.com/blog/which-android-http-library-to-use.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion PacketZoom [The Anatomy of Responsive Images](https://jakearchibald.com/2015/anatomy-of-responsive-images/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A good quick reference with examples for responsive images. Jake Archibald [E-book: Continuous Delivery Patterns for Design and Development](https://www.cycligent.com/continuous-delivery-whitepaper?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Requires an email. Cycligent [What's Next for WebRTC?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCE3S1E5UwY&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video Google provides details on what they are doing to progress WebRTC. YouTube [Doing a Perf Audit of your Polymer App](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkN5Q7nf7Vg&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video Paul Irish demonstrates how the Chrome DevTools can help you understand where time is spent in your app and effective means of profiling your performance. The Polymer Summit 2015 [Dallas Morning News Perf Audit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00PRvq9hxvg&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video Chris Love [HTTP Evader: Automate Firewall Evasion Tests](http://noxxi.de/research/http-evader.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools A tool to automate tests for possible bypasses. noxxi [rtop-bot: A Bot For Remote Server Monitoring Over SSH](http://www.rtop-monitor.org/rtop-bot/index.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code RapidLoop [quarry: A Dynamic DNS Server with Swappable Backends and CRUD API](https://github.com/containership/quarry?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code ContainerShip    [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/32) [See our archives](http://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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