---
title: "Issue 35: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 35
published_at: "2015-10-07"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/35"
---

WebOps Weekly 35   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/35) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 35 — October 7, 2015     

[The End of Safe Harbor and a Scary Path Forward](http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2015/10/6/end-of-safe-harbor/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) The European Court of Justice [has ruled](http://uk.businessinsider.com/european-court-of-justice-safe-harbor-ruling-2015-10) that the US-EU Safe Harbor agreement for sharing consumer data is invalid. This has implications for Web services as in many cases it will become illegal or difficult for EU companies to store certain data with US based services (think email, payment, hosting, etc.) Armin Ronacher [The Post-Amazon Challenge and the New Stack Model](http://thenewstack.io/post-amazon-challenge-new-stack-model/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A thesis on where things are coming together in the world of containers, orchestration, and PaaS - and some predictions for the future of modern Web deployment stacks. The New Stack [Introducing RAIL: A User-Centric Model For Performance](http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/10/rail-user-centric-model-performance/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Two Google performance heavyweights share the Chrome team’s latest model for putting users in the middle of the Web performance story: the RAIL model. Paul Irish and Paul Lewis [The State of Client-Side JavaScript Errors](https://trackjs.com/blog/the-state-of-client-side-javascript-errors/?utm_source=webopsweekly) JavaScript errors are more common than you think. Check out our report on the browsers and technologies most impacted. TrackJSsponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/6bb13e7c.png)](https://trackjs.com/blog/the-state-of-client-side-javascript-errors/?utm_source=webopsweekly) [Amazon Launches 'Elasticsearch Service' (ES)](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-elasticsearch-service/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Elasticsearch is a real-time, distributed search and analytics engine (which effectively acts like a document database too) and Amazon have launched a new service around it. AWS Official Blog [CORS for Concern](https://aerotwist.com/blog/cors-for-concern/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Paul reflects on the issues of building a podcast player app using Web technologies when cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) issues make it difficult to fetch third party resources without proxying. Paul Lewis [Google Weblight: Move Fast, Break Things?](http://blog.pricebaba.com/google-weblight-move-fast-break-things?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Weblight is a Google system for transcoding Web pages into a form optimized for delivery over slow networks, but it’s not without flaws notes Annkur P Agarwal. Pricebaba [E-Commerce Perf 'Sweet Spot' Now 2 Seconds for Both Mobile and Desktop](http://www.soasta.com/blog/back-to-school-website-performance-monitoring/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) The ‘sweet spot’ in this case is the page load time that yields the peak conversion rate for a given site. Tammy Everts [AWS WAF: A Web Application Firewall from Amazon](https://aws.amazon.com/waf/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Amazon continues on its roll of launching new services on AWS with a pay-as-you-go system to increase the protection of your apps against web-based attacks. Amazon Jobs [Director Of Operations At StatusPage.io (Denver, CO)](https://jobs.lever.co/statuspageio/7163e9aa-366e-4a26-977d-84ca7648054a) Come lead the Server Wranglin’ department at StatusPage.io. Looking for someone with a few years of experience architecting, configuring, and deploying production-grade applications. StatusPage.​io In brief [Coming Soon – EC2 Dedicated Hosts](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/coming-soon-ec2-dedicated-hosts/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news To ease customer’s licensing and security regulations, Amazon will soon allow you to have your EC2 instances running on dedicated hosts. Amazon [Mobile Browser Traffic Is 2X Bigger Than App Traffic, and Growing Faster](http://venturebeat.com/2015/09/25/wait-what-mobile-browser-traffic-is-2x-bigger-than-app-traffic-and-growing-faster/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news VentureBeat [HTTPS Support Coming to Blogspot/Blogger](https://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/https-support-coming-to-blogspot.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Google Online Security Blog [Introduction to EC2 Container Service](http://www.infoq.com/articles/intro-aws-ecs?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial InfoQ [Testing PHP Code using Docker](http://scene-si.org/2015/10/06/testing-php-code-using-docker/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Tit Petrič [Docker Basics Q+A: Understanding Union Filesystems, Storage and Volumes](http://blog.docker.com/2015/10/docker-basics-webinar-qa/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Both a video and write up. Docker [IndexedDB, WebSQL, LocalStorage – What Blocks The DOM?](http://nolanlawson.com/2015/09/29/indexeddb-websql-localstorage-what-blocks-the-dom/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Nolan Lawson [IPv6: It's Time to Get On Board](https://code.facebook.com/posts/1192894270727351/ipv6-it-s-time-to-get-on-board/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Facebook Engineering [Real-time metrics with Grafana dashboards](https://www.hostedgraphite.com/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Find out what your servers are doing in real-time. AWS monitoring and StatsD built-in! Hosted Graphitesponsored [Receive and Process Incoming Email with Amazon SES](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-receive-and-process-incoming-email-with-amazon-ses/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news tools Till now, Amazon’s Simple Email Service (SES) has been focused on sending mail, but now it can also be used to receive email messages for entire domains or individual addresses. AWS Official Blog [Gryffin: A Large Scale Web Security Scanning Platform From Yahoo](https://github.com/yahoo/gryffin?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools code Yahoo Inc.​    [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/35) [See our archives](http://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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