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title: "Issue 43: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 43
published_at: "2015-12-02"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/43"
---

WebOps Weekly 43   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/43) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 43 — December 2, 2015     

[The Secret Message Hidden in Every HTTP/2 Connection](http://blog.jgc.org/2015/11/the-secret-message-hidden-in-every.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) From one of the comments: “We needed two pseudo-HTTP requests for the ‘magic’ to assure it wasn’t being interpreted as HTTP/1.” John Graham-Cumming [Shadow: Open Source Network Simulator/Emulator Hybrid](https://shadow.github.io/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Shadow is a unique discrete-event network simulator that runs real applications like Tor and Bitcoin, and distributed systems of thousands of nodes on a single machine. Shadow [Reducing Single Point of Failure using Service Workers](http://calendar.perfplanet.com/2015/reducing-single-point-of-failure-using-service-workers/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) “[W]e can use the power of Service Workers to reduce the risk associated with 3rd party libraries. Using Service Workers, we can force a resource to timeout if it takes too long to download.” Dean Hume [[ON DEMAND WEBINAR\] Delivering the Honeywell User Experience Through OnPrem Monitoring](http://pages.catchpoint.com/OpsCast-On-Prem-Monitoring-Honeywell.html?LSD=SPON-WebOpsWeekly) Honeywell’s Paul Fries gives an inside look into how the technology giant uses portable monitoring agents to ensure their products’ performance on the ground and at 30,000 ft. Catchpointsponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/f042da13.jpg)](http://pages.catchpoint.com/OpsCast-On-Prem-Monitoring-Honeywell.html?LSD=SPON-WebOpsWeekly) [Building for HTTP/2](http://rmurphey.com/blog/2015/11/25/building-for-http2?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A look at how HTTP/2 impacts how we build and deliver Web applications and how it can fit in with existing approaches. Rebecca Murphey [How We Moved From Heroku To Containers With No Docker Experience](http://stackshare.io/proleads/how-we-moved-from-heroku-to-containers-with-no-docker-experience?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) ProLeads ran into a problem with costs at Heroku and set out to re-architect their app to using containers so it could deployed on other clouds more easily. StackShare [Deep Lessons from Google and eBay on Building Ecosystems of Microservices](http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/12/1/deep-lessons-from-google-and-ebay-on-building-ecosystems-of.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Large scale systems at companies like Google, Twitter, and eBay have tended to evolve into sets of polyglot microservices, but what does it looks like when you are in the polyglot microservices end state? High Scalability [What is Rocket and How It’s Different Than Docker](https://labs.ctl.io/interviews/what-is-rocket-and-how-its-different-than-docker/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) podcast Docker is not the only Linux container manager. CoreOS launched their own named Rocket which takes some different approaches to managing containers. CenturyLink [Getting Started with Docker by Dockerizing This Blog](http://bencane.com/2015/12/01/getting-started-with-docker-by-dockerizing-this-blog/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A look at Docker from an entry level POV with the author walking through ‘dockerizing’ the blog he’s writing on. Benjamin Cane Jobs [Want to spend less time job searching? Join in 1 min and the best startups will come to you.](https://underdog.io/?utm_source=newsletters&utm_medium=webopsweekly&utm_content=spendlesstimev2&utm_campaign=q4_15) If you’re accepted, startup decision-makers will email you as soon as next Monday. You decide where to interview and where to work. Now open in SF, NYC, and remote. Join the Underdog.io platform today! Underdog.​IO In brief [Varnish Delves into Microservice Monitoring with Zipnish](http://thenewstack.io/varnish-delves-into-microservice-monitoring-with-zipnish/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news tools The New Stack [The Guardian Goes All-In On AWS Public Cloud After OpenStack 'Disaster’](http://www.computerworlduk.com/cloud-computing/guardian-goes-all-in-on-aws-public-cloud-after-openstack-disaster-3629790/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news opinion Computer World [Hetzner Offering Improved Connections to a German ISP, For A Fee](http://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Double_Paid_Traffic/en?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news A commercial reality is that some ISPs are offering improved peering to those who will pay. Hetzner [Using Ansible to Set Up PostgreSQL](http://blog.apcelent.com/using-ansible-to-setup-postgresql.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Apcelent Blog [Linux Performance Analysis in 60,000 Milliseconds](http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/11/linux-performance-analysis-in-60s.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial The Netflix Tech Blog [Creating Your Own EC2 Spot Market: Part 2](https://media.netflix.com/en/tech-blog/creating-your-own-ec2-spot-market-part-2?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Netflix [How to Reduce Your Website's HTTP Requests](http://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/reduce-http-requests?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Very entry level but could be worth passing on. Lindsay Kolowich [How to Use AWS Elasticsearch for Log Management](http://logz.io/blog/aws-elasticsearch-log-management/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Tomer Levy [Squashing Docker Images with Btrfs](http://kamalmarhubi.com/blog/2015/11/27/squashing-docker-images-with-btrfs/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Kamal Marhubi [Capturing 5xx Errors with a Debug Server](https://www.nginx.com/blog/capturing-5xx-errors-debug-server/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial NGINX [Scaling ArangoDB to 1M JSON Writes Per Second On Mesosphere's DCOS](https://mesosphere.com/blog/2015/11/30/arangodb-benchmark-dcos/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Mesosphere [A Framework for Deployment of Immutable Infrastructure](https://www.disjoint.ca/posts/2015/11/26/a-framework-for-deployment-of-immutable-infrastructure/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Marvin Pinto [TCP Over IP Anycast - Pipe Dream or Reality?](https://engineering.linkedin.com/network-performance/tcp-over-ip-anycast-pipe-dream-or-reality?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion LinkedIn Engineering [Hostnames and Usernames to Reserve](https://ldpreload.com/blog/names-to-reserve?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Geoffrey Thomas [Calculate Expensive Downtime Costs from DDoS Attacks](http://lp.incapsula.com/ddos-downtime-cost-calculator.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2015_Q4_DDoS_Calculator) tools Thousands of customers use Incapsula every day to block cyber attacks. Imperva Incapsulasponsored [Chimera: Easy Multi-Container Testing with Docker](https://github.com/jgillich/chimera?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email#c) tools Jakob Gillich [sqlmap: Automatic SQL Injection and Database Takeover Tool](http://sqlmap.org/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Automate the process of detecting and exploiting SQL injection flaws and taking over of DB servers. Guimaraes and Stampar [oldweb.today: Surf The Old Web, Today](http://oldweb.today/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Surf the Web like it’s 1999. Ilya Kreymer [IncludeOS: A Minimal, Resource Efficient Unikernel for Cloud Services](https://github.com/hioa-cs/IncludeOS?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code A unikernel designed for x86 hardware virtualization, with no dependencies except for the virtual hardware. 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