---
title: "Issue 42: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 42
published_at: "2015-11-25"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/42"
---

WebOps Weekly 42   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/42) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 42 — November 25, 2015     

[HTTP/2 101](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5oT_2ndjms&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video A great 25 minute presentation by an engineer on the Chrome team over what HTTP/2 is, its history, and why you should be using it now. Lots of great diagrams here. Surma [What GitHub Pages, CloudFlare and AWS Lambda Have in Common](https://orlandodevs.com/blog/github-pages-cloudfront-aws-lambda/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A look at using CloudFlare to add https support for a GitHub Pages hosted blog on a custom domain. Lambda is then used to trigger a cache refresh at CloudFlare when pull requests are accepted. Sergio Cruz [Betwixt: Web Debugging Proxy based on Chrome DevTools Network Panel](https://github.com/kdzwinel/betwixt?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools A tool for analyzing web traffic outside the browser using the familiar Chrome DevTools interface. Konrad Dzwinel [Decrease Page Weight and Load Times with Responsive Images](https://www.imgix.com/?utm_source=webops-weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2015-11-24-webops-weekly) With imgix, integrating responsive images into your stack could not be easier. imgix can connect to an S3 bucket to resize, process, and serve images via CDN. Learn how to improve your images in less than 30 minutes. imgixsponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/68e9aeeb.png)](https://www.imgix.com/?utm_source=webops-weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2015-11-24-webops-weekly) [Why You Should Understand (a Little) About TCP](http://jvns.ca/blog/2015/11/21/why-you-should-understand-a-little-about-tcp/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A developer read an article about how TCP_NODELAY was causing latency issues and applied it to their own problem. Julia Evans [The Story of One Latency Spike](https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-story-of-one-latency-spike/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A CloudFlare user reported some HTTP requests were taking up to 30 seconds. They had to dig deep to find the reason (yet again, some TCP settings were involved). Marek Majkowski [Podcast Interview with Tammy Everts of SOASTA](http://pathtoperf.com/2015/11/23/10-with-tammy-everts.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) podcast A podcast with Tammy Everts, Web performance expert and a Senior Researcher at SOASTA. She covers performance budgets, the role of web performance within a company, and the impact of performance on the bottom line. The Path to Performance [How Hypernetes Brings Multi-tenancy to Microservice Architectures](http://thenewstack.io/hypernetes-brings-multi-tenancy-microservices/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Hypernetes is based on Hyper, the hypervisor-based Docker engine. Hyper allows running Docker images with any hypervisor (KVM, Xen, Vbox, ESX). The New Stack [AWS Lambda Makes Serverless Applications A Reality](http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/24/aws-lamda-makes-serverless-applications-a-reality/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A high level overview of how Amazon’s new _Lambda_ service helps you avoid having dedicated infrastructure or server instances for an app. TechCrunch [Page Weight Doesn't Matter](http://www.nateberkopec.com/2015/11/05/page-weight-doesnt-matter.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) The total size of a webpage, measured in bytes, has little to do with its load time. Nate Berkopec says the issue is latency. Nate Berkopec Jobs [We Bring Job Offers To You](https://hired.com/?utm_source=newsletters&utm_medium=webopsweekly&utm_campaign=q4_15-petercooperpress&utm_term=sponsored&utm_content=112515-bringoffers) For highly sought-after candidates, sifting through available job opportunities can be overwhelming. Forget applying and let interested companies reach out to you directly through Hired. Hired.​com In brief [Domain Validated SSL Will Soon Be Free From The Large CAs](https://certsimple.com/blog/domain-validated-ssl-will-be-free?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news opinion CertSimple [LinkedIn Finalizes its New Search Architecture, Galene](http://thenewstack.io/linkedin-finalizes-its-new-search-architecture-galene/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news The New Stack [Now Available on EC2: Dedicated Hosts](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-available-ec2-dedicated-hosts/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Allows you to control the mapping of EC2 instances to underlying physical servers. Amazon [How to Optimize WordPress for Holiday Traffic](https://www.maxcdn.com/blog/wordpress-optimization-holiday-traffic/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Robert Gibb [10 Tips for Understanding and Improving Your CDN Strategy](https://www.maxcdn.com/blog/cdn-tips-roundup-1/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Robert Gibb [Managing State across an Ant Swarm of AWS Lambda Tasks](https://medium.com/@edwardbenson/managing-state-across-an-ant-swarm-of-aws-lambda-tasks-f225ff8564ae?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Ted Benson [Inside Engineering: Behind CodePen's Security and Scale](https://scaleyourcode.com/blog/article/24?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Scale Your Code [Shark Tank Increased Our Traffic by 1000x. Here's How We Handled It.](http://blog.lerner.co.il/scaling-up-a-site-for-shark-tank/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Reuven Lerner [How Docker Turbocharged Uber's Deployments](http://thenewstack.io/docker-helped-turbocharge-ubers-deployments/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) The New Stack [Inside eBay’s Shift To Kubernetes And Containers Atop OpenStack](http://www.nextplatform.com/2015/11/12/inside-ebays-shift-to-kubernetes-and-containers-atop-openstack/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Timothy Prickett Morgan [How Wistia Handles Millions of Requests Per Hour and Processes Rich Video Analytics](http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/11/23/how-wistia-handles-millions-of-requests-per-hour-and-process.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) High Scalability [Fail at Scale and Controlling Queue Delay](http://blog.acolyer.org/2015/11/19/fail-at-scale-controlling-queue-delay/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A look at two scaling related papers written by people at Facebook. the morning paper [Glacier Costlier than S3 for Small Files](https://therub.org/2015/11/18/glacier-costlier-than-s3-for-small-files/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion The author’s conclusion: “Do not use Amazon Glacier with files smaller than 200KB.” Dan Rue [How to Deploy All Day, Yet Deploy Nothing](http://mr.si/posts/2015/11/22/how-to-deploy-all-day-yet-deploy-nothing/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Miha Rekar [Docker Orchestration – The Full Story](https://railsadventures.wordpress.com/2015/11/15/docker-orchestration-the-full-story/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion A look at how one company orchestrates Docker in production. Nanit [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 [Demeter: Security Group Management For AWS](https://github.com/coinbase/demeter?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools A command line tool for managing security groups across multiple AWS environments. Coinbase [icmptunnel: Transparently Tunnel IP Traffic Through ICMP Echo and Reply Packets](https://github.com/DhavalKapil/icmptunnel?l=c&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Dhaval Kapil    [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/42) [See our archives](http://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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