---
title: "Issue 40: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 40
published_at: "2015-11-11"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/40"
---

WebOps Weekly 40   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/40) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 40 — November 11, 2015     

[The Stack Behind Netflix's Scaling](http://www.scalescale.com/the-stack-behind-netflix-scaling/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A look at the stack and tools Netflix uses and how their culture influences how their service scales. ScaleScale [Why Performance Matters: Perception Management](http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/11/why-performance-matters-part-2-perception-management/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Denys Mishunov looks at how time isn’t just about accurate figures but about how the end user _perceives_ time and what we can do to influence it. Smashing Magazine [Stashboard: The Open Source Status Dashboard](http://www.stashboard.org/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Similar to the Amazon AWS Status Page or the Google Apps Status Page. Stashboard was originally written by Twilio to provide status information on its Voice and SMS APIs. Twilio [Are you still managing your own monitoring system? Really?](https://www.hostedgraphite.com/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Tired of trying to fight with your monitoring system to get answers from your servers and apps? We've built a better version. Automated dashboards from AWS Cloudwatch, beautiful Grafana dashboards and granular team features. There's a better way! Hosted Graphitesponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/01d6c57e.png)](https://www.hostedgraphite.com/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) [Big Rig: A Tool to Analyse Tracing Data of How Your Page Loads](https://aerotwist.com/blog/bigrig/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Big Rig helps you analyse the trace data produced while loading a Web page. Paul Lewis [Monitoring HAProxy Performance Metrics](https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/monitoring-haproxy-performance-metrics/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial First in a series of posts looking at how to monitor the popular high performance TCP and HTTP proxy. Datadog [Follow the Yellow Brick Road: Taking Microservices Home](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PouyFmzVIs&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video A high level keynote about the organizational impacts of moving to a microservices-based architecture. Zhamak Dehghani [AWS Plans To Launch A UK Region By The End Of 2016](http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/06/aws-plans-to-launch-a-uk-region-by-the-end-of-2016/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news So far Amazon’s EU datacenters have been in Ireland and Germany, but the UK and South Korea are forthcoming. TechCrunch Jobs [Looking for job offers from top companies but hate applying?](https://hired.com/?utm_source=WebOpsWeekly &utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=q4_15-petercooperpress&utm_term=sponsored&utm_content=111115-hateapplying) You're in luck! Through Hired, companies reach out to candidates with your skills and experience and request interviews. Stop applying and let the offers come to you with Hired. Hired.​com In brief [CloudFlare Announces Universal DNSSEC: Secure DNS for Every Domain](https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-universal-dnssec/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news tools CloudFlare [Kubernetes 1.1 Perf Upgrades, Improved Tooling and A Growing Community](http://blog.kubernetes.io/2015/11/Kubernetes-1-1-Performance-upgrades-improved-tooling-and-a-growing-community.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news tools Kubernetes [A Look at the New WordPress Brute Force Amplification Attack](https://blog.cloudflare.com/a-look-at-the-new-wordpress-brute-force-amplification-attack/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news CloudFlare [Google Updates Its Container Services With Focus On Speed, Scaling And Authentication](http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/10/google-updates-its-container-services-with-focus-on-speed-scaling-and-authentication/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news TechCrunch [How The Guardian Used Service Workers to Build an Offline Page](https://www.theguardian.com/info/developer-blog/2015/nov/04/building-an-offline-page-for-theguardiancom?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial The Guardian [Microservices: The Essential Practices](http://technologyconversations.com/2015/11/10/microservices-the-essential-practices/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Viktor Farcic [How I Deploy Haskell Code](http://www.alfredodinapoli.com/posts/2015-11-03-how-i-deploy-haskell-code.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Alfredo Di Napoli [Secure Your Custom Domain Website with A Free SSL Cert From StartSSL](http://www.aerobatic.com/blog/secure-your-website-with-free-ssl-cert-from-startssl.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Aerobatic [How Much Do Containers Thrash VMs in Power Usage?](http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/06/containers_thrash_vms_in_the_power_consumption_stakes/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Findings that indicate containers are more energy efficient than VMs. The Register [What It’s Like to Build At #100MillionCitizens Scale](https://www.govdelivery.com/blog/technical-deep-dive-what-its-like-to-build-at-100millioncitizens-scale/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion GovDelivery [If it works with Docker, it works with Codeship](http://pages.codeship.com/docker?utm_campaign=DockerPlatform&utm_medium=email&utm_source=webopsweekly) tools Learn about the new Codeship with native Docker support. Work with your established Docker workflows while automating your testing and deployment tasks. [Get free trial access here.](http://pages.codeship.com/docker?utm_campaign=DockerPlatform=CooperPress=email) Codeshipsponsored [Yellow Lab Tools: Online Test to Help Speed Up Heavy Web Pages](http://yellowlab.tools/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Gaël Métais [StubOnWeb: Tool to Quickly Create Mock, Live Webhooks](http://stubonweb.herokuapp.com/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools stubonweb.​herokuapp.​com [How We Moved 34,000 WIRED Pages to One Site in 9 Hours](http://www.wired.com/2015/10/cyphon-wired-archive-migration/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) WIRED [Measuring the Performance of Single Page Web Applications](http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/11/performance-web-applications?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) InfoQ [Beyond TCP: The Evolution of Internet Transport Protocols](http://www.slideshare.net/obonaventure/beyond-tcp-the-evolution-of-internet-transport-protocols?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) slidedeck Just slides, but they’re pretty detailed. Olivier Bonaventure    [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/40) [See our archives](http://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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