---
title: "Issue 37: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 37
published_at: "2015-10-21"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/37"
---

WebOps Weekly 37   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/37) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 37 — October 21, 2015     

[Varnish HTTP/2 with SSL/TLS Offloading on H2O](https://www.symfony.fi/entry/varnish-http-2-with-ssl-tls-offloading-on-h2o?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Varnish is a popular reverse proxy used to accelerate pages by caching static HTML, but it doesn’t natively support SSL/TLS, as required by HTTP/2. So how can we achieve high performance using Varnish with HTTP/2? Symfony Finland [How to Do HTTP/2 with Apache httpd](https://icing.github.io/mod_h2/howto.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Support for HTTP/2 is finally being released with httpd 2.4.17. This guide provides advice on how to build/deploy/configure it. greenbytes GmbH [Requestdiff: Sends Two HTTP Requests and Visualizes Differences](http://requestdiff.com/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A simple online tool that lets you issue requests to two different URLs and quickly see the difference in the headers and body. Victor Delgado [“Building our own status page was a great idea!” - no one ever](https://www.statuspage.io/?utm_source=webops_weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_term=webops_weekly_10_21&utm_campaign=newsletter_sponsorship) StatusPage.io is the best way to build a status page for your app or website. We help companies keep their customers and/or internal teams in the loop during downtime. StatusPage.​iosponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/ccf71dfe.png)](https://www.statuspage.io/?utm_source=webops_weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_term=webops_weekly_10_21&utm_campaign=newsletter_sponsorship) [Rebuilding Our Infrastructure with Docker, ECS, and Terraform](http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/10/19/segment-rebuilding-our-infrastructure-with-docker-ecs-and-te.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) The CTO of Segment, a customer data platform, writes about the realities of handling infrastructure while rapidly building a company, including using Amazon Web Services and Docker. High Scalability [The Custom Gear Inside Amazon's Cloud](http://www.theplatform.net/2015/10/12/the-custom-gear-inside-amazons-cloud/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Amazon are relatively tight-lipped on the designs of their custom gear, but here’s a look at what they have revealed recently. Timothy Prickett Morgan [Why You Should Use a Performance Budget](http://blog.dareboost.com/en/2015/10/performance-budget/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A look at a fundamental concept to keep in mind when implementing a performance culture for your Web projects: _the performance budget._ Damien Jubeau [Building Loadcat: A Simple NGINX Configuration Tool](http://www.toptal.com/devops/simplified-nginx-load-balancing-with-loadcat?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A look at an experimental tool to configure your NGINX instance on the fly to act as a load balancer, abstracting away all the nitty-gritty details of NGINX configuration files with a web-based UI. Mahmud Ridwan [EC2 Spot Blocks for Defined-Duration Workloads](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-ec2-spot-blocks-for-defined-duration-workloads/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news “you can now launch Spot instances that will run continuously for a finite duration (1 to 6 hours). Pricing is based on the requested duration and the available capacity, and is typically 30% to 45% less than On-Demand” Amazon [Google Deprecating Its AJAX Crawling Scheme](http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2015/10/deprecating-our-ajax-crawling-scheme.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Google’s default crawler is now so good that their [AJAX Crawling guidance](https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/learn-more) is now deprecated. Official Google Webmaster Central Blog [Save Some Bandwidth by Turning Off TCP Timestamps](http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/10/14/save-some-bandwidth-by-turning-off-tcp-timestamps.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Timestamps are used in TCP data segments to monitor round-trip time. This can be very useful but on low latency networks, disabling timestamps can yield minor improvements. High Scalability In brief [In Firefox 44 Nightly, 'http:' Pages with Password Inputs Now Marked Insecure](https://twitter.com/rlbarnes/status/656554266744586240?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Richard Barnes on Twitter [Let's Encrypt is Trusted](https://letsencrypt.org/2015/10/19/lets-encrypt-is-trusted.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news A step forward for a new certificate authority aiming to provide free, automated and open certificates to all by the end of 2015. Let's Encrypt [Lawmakers Call For Stronger Do-Not-Track Standards](http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/259971/lawmakers-call-for-stronger-do-not-track-standards.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Wendy Davis [DigitalOcean Launches Floating IPs](https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/floating-ips-start-architecting-your-applications-for-high-availability/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news The popular VPS host now allows users to have IPs that can be instantly moved between VMs. DigitalOcean [CloudFlare DNSSEC is Open for Beta](https://blog.cloudflare.com/dnssec-is-open-for-beta/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news CloudFlare [Top 5 Performance Metrics to Capture in Enterprise PHP Applications](https://blog.appdynamics.com/php/top-5-performance-metrics-to-capture-in-enterprise-php-applications/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=webops%20weekly&utm_content=top%205%20performance%20metrics%20to%20capture%20in%20enterprise%20php%20applications&utm_term=) tutorial AppDynamicssponsored [How to Solve Caching Conundrums](http://www.sitepoint.com/solve-caching-conundrums/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial SitePoint [Debugging a Memory Leak in Ruby Apps on Heroku](http://blog.codeship.com/debugging-a-memory-leak-on-heroku/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Richard Schneeman [Should We Move to AWS and Keep Ourselves Cloud Agnostic?](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/should-we-move-aws-keep-ourselves-cloud-agnostic-eric-thibeault?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Eric Thibeault [Why Use NGINX As A Load Balancer?](https://opensource.com/business/15/10/why-use-nginx-load-balancer?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion OpenSource.​com [Monitoring Microservices Means Embracing Failure](http://thenewstack.io/nginx-sarah-novotny-case-monitoring-microservices/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion The New Stack [seqtest: Test End-to-End TCP Operation Under Load](https://github.com/luceracloud/seqtest?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Lucera Financial Infrastructures [Real-time metrics with Grafana dashboards, StatsD and AWS Cloudwatch](https://www.hostedgraphite.com/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools What do your servers do when nobody's watching? Find out: Hosted Graphite AWS monitoring with StatsD built-in! Hosted Graphitesponsored [ImageOptim: An OS X Image Optimizer for Web Images](https://imageoptim.com/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools pornelski [Lambda Complex: Build and Deploy Node.js Apps Built From AWS Lambda Functions](https://github.com/exratione/lambda-complex?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Reason [Siberite: A Simple LevelDB-backed Message Queue](https://github.com/bogdanovich/siberite?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Anton Bogdanovich [Nucleon: Dynamic TCP Load Balancer Written in Rust](https://github.com/NicolasLM/nucleon?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Nicolas Le Manchet    [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/37) [See our archives](http://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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