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title: "Issue 41: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 41
published_at: "2015-11-18"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/41"
---

WebOps Weekly 41   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/41) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 41 — November 18, 2015     

[7 Tips for Faster HTTP/2 Performance](https://www.nginx.com/blog/7-tips-for-faster-http2-performance/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Decide whether you need to use HTTP/2 yet or not and then discover some ways to get the most out of it in this useful article. NGINX [Deploying HTTPS: The Green Lock and Beyond](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WuP4KcDBpI&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video At the Chrome Dev Summit, Emily Stark of Chrome’s security team spoke about the motivation for using HTTPS everywhere and what tools you can use to help with any issues you encounter. YouTube [1M Requests Per Second: Dependable and Dynamic Distributed Systems at Scale](http://blog.kubernetes.io/2015/11/one-million-requests-per-second-dependable-and-dynamic-distributed-systems-at-scale.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Google’s Brendan Burns shows off a simple demo (using Kubernetes) of a Container Engine cluster serving 1 million HTTP requests per second. Kubernetes [[WEBINAR\] Hear how Honeywell Uses Synthetic Monitoring](http://pages.catchpoint.com/OpsCast-On-Prem-Monitoring-Honeywell.html?LSD=SPON-WebOpsWeekly) Honeywell’s Monitoring Leader Paul Fries will demonstrate how Honeywell has used different synthetic monitoring solutions to improve customer experience around the world, and how you can replicate their methods to do the same. Join Catchpoint's upcoming OpsCast, Delivering the Honeywell User Experience Through OnPrem Monitoring today to learn more. Catchpointsponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/bd9ef485.jpg)](http://pages.catchpoint.com/OpsCast-On-Prem-Monitoring-Honeywell.html?LSD=SPON-WebOpsWeekly) [Dockercraft: A Docker Client.. in Minecraft](https://github.com/docker/dockercraft?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools code A way to visualize and manage Docker containers from inside the popular 3D construction game. Surprisingly, this comes from Docker Inc. themselves. Docker Inc.​ [9ish Low Latency Strategies for SaaS Companies](http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/11/16/9ish-low-latency-strategies-for-saas-companies.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) “Achieving very low latencies takes special engineering, but if you are a SaaS company latencies of a few hundred milliseconds are possible for complex business logic using standard technologies like load balancers, queues, JVMs, and REST APIs.” High Scalability [How to Get Into Microservices Real Quick](https://blog.ruxit.com/microservices/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A collection of links to blogs, talks, social media, and other resources for diving into the world of microservices. Martin Goodwell [Benchmarking Cloud Provider Performance](http://www.acmebenchmarking.com/2015/11/benchmarking-cloud-provider-performance.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Results from benchmarking VoltDB on Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, IBM Softlayer, and Google Cloud Platform. Acme Benchmarking [Instant Loading Web Apps With An Application Shell Architecture](https://medium.com/@addyosmani/instant-loading-web-apps-with-an-application-shell-architecture-7c0c2f10c73?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A look at using a service worker-augumented ‘Application Shell’ architecture to have a cached ‘shell’ for your pages populated with dynamic content. Great article - there’s a lot to pick up here. Addy Osmani and Matt Gaunt [3 Simple Ways of Saving Up to 90% of EC2 Costs](https://cloudonaut.io/3-simple-ways-of-saving-up-to-90-of-ec2-costs/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Essentially three different ways to lean on spot instances. By using defined-duration workloads, spot fleets, and auto scaling. Cloudonaut [Better Than Gzip Compression with Brotli](https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/11/better-than-gzip-compression-with-brotli/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Brotli is an open source data compression library formally specified by IETF draft. It can be used to compress HTTPS responses sent to a browser, in place of gzip or deflate. Mozilla Hacks Jobs [Applying For Jobs Is As Outdated As Fortran](https://hired.com/?utm_source=newsletters&utm_medium=webopsweekly&utm_campaign=q4_15-petercooperpress&utm_term=sponsored&utm_content=111815-fortran) Forget applying for jobs. Through Hired, companies looking for someone with your skills and experience reach out to you with interview requests, which include salary and other benefits upfront. Hired.​com In brief [Clair: Open Source Vulnerability Analysis for your Containers](https://coreos.com/blog/vulnerability-analysis-for-containers/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news tools CoreOS [More Privacy, Less Latency - Improved Handshakes in TLS 1.3](https://timtaubert.de/blog/2015/11/more-privacy-less-latency-improved-handshakes-in-tls-13/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Tim Taubert [CloudFlare Is Now PCI 3.1 Certified](https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-is-now-pci-3-1-certified/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Cloudflare [Deis Aims to Extend Kubernetes into a Platform](http://thenewstack.io/deis-aims-extend-kubernetes-platform/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news The New Stack [5 Tips to Increase Node.js Application Performance](https://www.nginx.com/blog/5-performance-tips-for-node-js-applications/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Floyd Smith [Running Rust Code on AWS Lambda](http://julienblanchard.com/2015/rust-on-aws-lambda/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Julien Blanchard [Scaling Tor Hidden Services](https://www.benthamsgaze.org/2015/11/17/scaling-tor-hidden-services/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Bentham's Gaze [MariaDB vs MySQL on Amazon's AWS RDS](http://cloudacademy.com/blog/mariadb-vs-mysql-aws-rds/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Chandan Patra [A Case for Microservices](http://peter.bourgon.org/a-case-for-microservices/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Peter Bourgon [Automating Our Infrastructure to Empower Engineers](https://segment.com/blog/automating-our-infrastructure/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Segment [The Road to Running Haskell at Facebook Scale](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl2zo7tzrO8&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video Jon Coens [Discover 52 tips to improve your .NET performance](http://www.red-gate.com/products/dotnet-development/ants-performance-profiler/entrypage/52-net-performance-tips?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=displayemail&utm_content=52_net_tips&utm_campaign=antsperformanceprofiler&utm_term=email-24158) Our new eBook features dozens of tips and tricks to boost your .NET performance. [Download your free copy.](http://www.red-gate.com/products/dotnet-development/ants-performance-profiler/entrypage/52-net-performance-tips?utm_source=webopsweekly=displayemail=52_net_tips=antsperformanceprofiler=email-24158) Red Gate Softwaresponsored [Bitfusion Profiler: A Tool to Benchmark App Performance Across Hardware Types](https://profiler.bitfusion.io/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Bitfusion [Docker DOOM: Kill Docker Containers from the Game DOOM](https://gideonred.com/dockerdoom/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Minecraft a bit too modern for you? Blast away Docker containers from 1993’s best game. Gideon Redelinghuys [Kong: API Management Powered by Nginx](http://www.nginxtips.com/kong-api-management-nginx/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Nginx Tips [Peggy: Tool to Deploy PHP Apps to DigitalOcean](https://getpeggy.com/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Big Bite Creative [adsuck: A Small DNS Server That Spoofs Blacklisted Addresses](https://opensource.conformal.com/wiki/adsuck?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Conformal    [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/41) [See our archives](http://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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