---
title: "Issue 44: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 44
published_at: "2015-12-09"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/44"
---

WebOps Weekly 44   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/44) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 44 — December 9, 2015     

[Nchan: A Flexible Pub/Sub Server for the Web](https://nchan.slact.net/readme?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Nchan is a scalable, flexible pub/sub server, built as an NGINX module. Messages are published with POST requests or WebSockets, and channels can be subscribed to using WebSockets, long-polling, EventSource (SSE), or even interval polling. Leo P [Let's Encrypt Enters Public Beta](https://letsencrypt.org/2015/12/03/entering-public-beta.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news tools “It’s time for the Web to take a big step forward in terms of security and privacy. We want to see HTTPS become the default. Let’s Encrypt was built to enable that by making it as easy as possible to get and manage certificates.” Let's Encrypt [Tools for Debugging, Testing and Using HTTP/2](https://blog.cloudflare.com/tools-for-debugging-testing-and-using-http-2/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A walk through a variety of browser add-ons, command line tools, load testers, confirmance verifiers, and more for working with, and debugging, HTTP/2. John Graham-Cumming [“Building our own status page was a great idea!” - no one ever](https://www.statuspage.io/?utm_source=webops_weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_term=webops_weekly_12_09&utm_campaign=newsletter_sponsorship) StatusPage.io is the best way to build a status page for your app or website. We help companies communicate keep the their customers and/or internal teams in the loop during downtime. StatusPage.​iosponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/c476e1db.png)](https://www.statuspage.io/?utm_source=webops_weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_term=webops_weekly_12_09&utm_campaign=newsletter_sponsorship) [The Serverless Start-up: Down with Servers](http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/12/7/the-serverless-start-up-down-with-servers.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion A look at how one startup is trying to do it all without any servers, instead using Amazon’s API Gateway, Lambda, and Cloudfront. High Scalability [Amazon Route 53 Traffic Flow: Global Traffic Management in the Cloud](http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2015/12/announcing-amazon-route-53-traffic-flow-global-traffic-management-in-the-cloud/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news A new service from Amazon that lets you build routing policies in a flowchart-like fashion to manage how your end-users are routed to your application’s endpoints. Amazon [Microservices in Seconds: Node.js + Docker + NoSQL](http://thenewstack.io/microservices-seconds-node-js-docker-nosql/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial A look at bringing numerous pieces together in a multi-tier application that can serve as a blueprint for a microservices architecture. Tim Gross [Helping VIPs Care About Performance](https://24ways.org/2015/helping-vips-care-about-performance/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Lara Hogan explains how to use metrics to get company VIPs invested in improving the performance of a site, such as showing them how it loads on mobile devices. 24 Ways [SHA-1 Deprecation: No Browser Left Behind](https://blog.cloudflare.com/sha-1-deprecation-no-browser-left-behind/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) “After December 31, 2015, SSL certificates that use the SHA-1 hash algorithm for their signature will be declared technology non grata on the modern Internet.” Matthew Prince [PHP 7 Boasts Doubled Performance Though Security Concerns Linger](http://thenewstack.io/php-7-boasts-doubled-performance-though-security-concerns-linger/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) PHP 7 was released and promises big performance gains. This article gives a high level overview of why it took so long and what’s going on with PHP overall. The New Stack [Using Graph Analysis to Decompose Monoliths into Microservices with Neo4j](http://www.kennybastani.com/2015/05/graph-analysis-microservice-neo4j.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Thoughts on developing microservices and applying a graph processing technique to simulate the decomposition of service architectures into microservices. Kenny Bastani [HTTP/2 Is Here. Goodbye SPDY? Not Quite Yet](https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-http2/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news CloudFlare has introduced HTTP/2 support for all customers using TLS connections while still automatically supporting SPDY. They explain why here, as well as look at present levels of HTTP/2 usage. CloudFlare [AWS Lambda: "Occasionally Reliable Caching"](http://blog.matthewdfuller.com/2015/12/aws-lambda-occasionally-reliable-caching.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) “One of the biggest misconceptions I’ve heard from developers working with Lambda for the first time is that every execution of a Lambda function is entirely isolated and independent.” Matthew D Fuller [Examining IPv6 Performance](https://labs.ripe.net/Members/gih/examining-ipv6-performance?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Is IPv6 an inferior cousin of IPv4 in terms of service performance? Analysis of the results of a large scale measurement of IPv4 and IPv6 performance. Geoff Huston Jobs [Freelance with Companies like Airbnb, IDEO, & JPMorgan](http://www.toptal.com/developers?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=cpm-newsletter&utm_content=freelanceWithCompanies&utm_campaign=webops) Work with top clients, set your own rates, and work from anywhere as an elite Toptal developer. Join the most exclusive network of top software engineers in the world. Toptal In brief [If it works with Docker, it works with Codeship](http://pages.codeship.com/docker?utm_campaign=DockerPlatform&utm_medium=CooperPress&utm_source=email) 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&utm_medium=CooperPress&utm_source=email) Codeshipsponsored [Chrome for Android Can Now Save More Data by Blocking Website Images](http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/1/9827386/google-chrome-android-data-saver-image-blocking?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news The Verge [Nokia, ARM, Enea Craft New TCP/IP Stack for the Cloud](http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/12/08/nokia_arm_enea_craft_tcpip_stack_for_the_cloud/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news A group of major vendors has put forward an open source TCP/IP stack they say is designed to reinvigorate the ancient protocol. The Register [Open Container Initiative Establishes Technical Governance, Announces New Members](http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/announcements/2015/12/open-container-initiative-establishes-technical-governance?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Linux Foundation [The Impact of Attacks on Root Servers](http://root-servers.org/news/events-of-20151130.txt?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news On November 30 and December 1, several of the Internet Domain Name System’s root name servers received a high rate of queries. This report explains their nature and impact. Root Server Operators [Avoiding Temptations that Harm Website Performance](http://calendar.perfplanet.com/2015/avoiding-temptations-that-harm-website-performance/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Barbara Bermes [Running Network Constrained Applications on EC2](https://developer.washingtonpost.com/pb/blog/post/2015/12/02/running-network-constrained-applications-on-ec2/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial A look at the thought process behind picking EC2 instance types based on network constraints. Patrick Cullen [Working on Chrome Performance with WebPageTest](http://calendar.perfplanet.com/2015/working-on-chrome-performance-with-webpagetest/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Patrick Meenan [Configuring Let's Encrypt for NGINX with Automatic Renewal](https://johnmaguire.me/2015/12/configuring-nginx-lets-encrypt-automatic-renewal/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial John Maguire [How to Optimize Images for Faster Load Times with Kelly Sutton](https://scaleyourcode.com/interviews/interview/19?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video Scale Your Code [50 Web Performance Experts to Follow Online](https://www.keycdn.com/blog/web-performance-experts/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion KeyCDN [7 Sanity Checks to the Hysteria Behind Holiday Website Outages](http://www.soasta.com/blog/website-outage-web-performance-testing-black-friday/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion “There’s no magic formula that will guarantee you a 100% seamless holiday shopping season,” says SOASTA’s Tammy Everts. Tammy Everts [4 Questions You Need to Ask Before Deploying Docker](https://blog.pusher.com/4-questions-you-need-to-ask-before-deploying-docker/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Jonas Pfenniger Chevalier [A Reunited Node.js Guns for the Enterprise](http://thenewstack.io/node-js-long-term-support-ready-enterprise/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion The New Stack [The Oncoming Train of Enterprise Container Deployments](http://www.juliandunn.net/2015/12/04/the-oncoming-train-of-enterprise-container-deployments/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Julian Dunn [Monitoring Performance in Microservice Architectures](http://container-solutions.com/monitoring-performance-microservice-architectures/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Lukasz Guminski [S3/CloudFront Plugin for the Let's Encrypt Client](https://github.com/dlapiduz/letsencrypt-s3front?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools code Use the Let’s Encrypt client to generate and install a certificate to be used with an AWS CloudFront distribution of an S3 bucket. Diego Lapiduz [EasyEngine: PHP at Scale on Nginx Made Easy](https://easyengine.io/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools A Python-based command line control panel to setup NGINX on Ubuntu and Debian for hosting HTML and PHP/HHVM sites. rtCamp [SSH2: SSH for EC2, SSH to Your EC2 Instance Instantly](https://github.com/soheil/ssh2?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools SSH2 is an interactive command line tool which allows you to quickly ssh to an EC2 instance. You can select from a list of running servers under your account. Soheil [Droot: A Simple App Container Engine using Chroot and without Docker](https://github.com/yuuki1/droot?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools code y_uuki [Stack Up: A Simple Deployment Tool](https://github.com/pressly/sup?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Asks you to “think of it like ‘make’ for a network of servers.” Pressly Inc.​ [heroku-buildpack-swift: A Swift 2.2 Buildpack for Heroku](https://github.com/johnbeynon/heroku-buildpack-swift?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code John Beynon    [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/44) [See our archives](http://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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