---
title: "Issue 39: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 39
published_at: "2015-11-04"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/39"
---

WebOps Weekly 39   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/39) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 39 — November 4, 2015     

[WebPageTest: Site Performance Test Tool, Now With Real 3G](http://www.webpagetest.org/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A great tool and it's only getting better. Want to test your site’s performance over a 3G connection in Brazil or India? Now you can. [Steve Souders spoke briefly](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg0L0UXZhkI) about this at Velocity Amsterdam last week. WebPagetest [How Shopify Scales to Handle High Traffic Flash Sales](http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/11/2/how-shopify-scales-to-handle-flash-sales-from-kanye-west-and.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Aggressive sharding and being able to automatically turn features on and off depending on the availability of backend services are key. High Scalability [Throttling the Network in Chrome DevTools](https://css-tricks.com/throttling-the-network/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) The Network tab in Chrome DevTools has an option to faux throttle your network, so you can experience what your users might experience visiting your website on 3G, 2G and GPRS connections. CSS Tricks [Why Do I Keep Recording `Script Error`?](https://trackjs.com/blog/script-error-javascript-forensics/?utm_source=webopsweekly) Understanding and diagnosing `Script Error` with JavaScript Forensics. TrackJSsponsored[![\](http://s3.amazonaws.com/nlga/uploads/item/image/44940/i.png)](https://trackjs.com/blog/script-error-javascript-forensics/?utm_source=webopsweekly) [Making Manageable Microservices on AWS](http://thenewstack.io/making-manageable-microservices-aws/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A variety of useful insights from Chris Munns of Amazon Web Services. The key is to define standards early on, adopt them thorough, and automate everything. The New Stack [When Research Findings Challenge Our Conventions](http://www.webperformancetoday.com/2015/11/02/when-research-findings-challenge-our-conventions/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) We accept that progressive image rendering and faster page performance are inherently better, but what if actual research doesn’t bear this out? Kent Alstad explains. Web Performance Today [Disrupting DevOps: A Market Map of the Container Ecosystem](http://thenewstack.io/containers-disrupting-devops-infographic/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Infographic outlining the constellation of products using containers to boost the benefits of continuous delivery. The New Stack [Why 'Ad Blockers' Are Also Changing the Game for SaaS and App Developers](https://snipcart.com/blog/ad-blockers-saas-web-developers?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Even if your site contains no ads, the filter lists that come with some ad blockers could end up blocking legitimate URLs in your webapps - as happened here. Snipcart Jobs [Own The Job Search With Hired](https://hired.com/?utm_source=WebOps Weekly &utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=q4_15-petercooperpress&utm_term=sponsored&utm_content=110415-own) We are all about putting the candidates in the driver’s seat. Take control of your next job search with Hired on your side to have companies apply to you. Hired.​com In brief [Docker 1.9 Released: Production-Ready Swarm and Multi-Host Networking](http://blog.docker.com/2015/11/docker-1-9-production-ready-swarm-multi-host-networking/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news tools Docker [The Road to 2 Million Websocket Connections in Phoenix](http://www.phoenixframework.org/v1.0.0/blog/the-road-to-2-million-websocket-connections?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Gary Rennie [Still Fuming Over HTTPS Mishap, Google Makes Symantec An Offer It Can’t Refuse](http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/10/still-fuming-over-https-mishap-google-gives-symantec-an-offer-it-cant-refuse/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Ars Technica [How Google’s AMP Project Speeds Up The Web - by Sandblasting HTML](http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/11/googles-amp-an-internet-giant-tackles-the-old-myth-of-the-web-is-too-slow/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Ars Technica [Lets Talk About Proxies, Pt. 2: Nginx as a Forward HTTP Proxy](https://engineering.opendns.com/2015/11/03/lets-talk-about-proxies-pt-2-nginx-as-a-forward-http-proxy/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial OpenDNS Engineering [Serving Certificates From Redis with OpenResty and ssl_certificate_by_lua](https://litespeed.io/dynamic-tls-certificates-part-2-serving-certificates-from-redis-with-openresty-and-ssl_certificate_by_lua/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Mark Kelly [The Case for HTTP/2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob-CnA9YmiI&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video Andy Davies [Building Resilient Services with Go](http://blog.fogcreek.com/building-resilient-services-with-go-tech-talk/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video Gareth Wilson [An Interview with Tammy Everts at Velocity New York 2015](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CHR8T0udzs&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video YouTube [Why Static Website Generators Are The Next Big Thing](http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/11/modern-static-website-generators-next-big-thing/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion tools Smashing Magazine [7XX-rfc: An RFC for A New Series of HTTP Status Codes Covering Developer Fouls](https://github.com/joho/7XX-rfc?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion For humorous purposes only - very tongue in cheek. John Barton [Bigger, Faster, and More Engaging While On A Budget](http://engineering.zillow.com/bigger-faster-and-more-engaging-while-on-a-budget/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion A case study of how Zillow uses performance budgeting. Zillow Engineering Blog [Jeffrey Zeldman Reflects on Web Performance Today](http://www.zeldman.com/2015/10/21/web-performance-today/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Jeffrey Zeldman [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 [Online HTTP Security Report Tool](https://httpsecurityreport.com/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools HTTP Security Report [Applikatoni: Tech-Agnostic Deployments of Multiple Apps to Multiple Servers](http://applikatoni.com/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code tools Uses WebSockets for a live view and runs deployments in parallel via SSH on multiple servers. flinc [parallec: Fast Parallel Async HTTP/SSH/TCP/Ping Client Java Library](https://github.com/eBay/parallec?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code eBay [High Availability using DNS, HAproxy, Keepalived and Nginx on Openstack](http://blog.vialactea.space/ha-using-dns-haproxy-keepalived-nginx-openstack.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) vialactea [The Design of a High-Performance File Server (1989)](http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.38.5481&rep=rep1&type=pdf&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Dating from 1989, this is just a fun look back at working around the perf issues of the time than anything. Renesse, Tanenbaum, Wilschut    [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/39) [See our archives](http://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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