---
title: "Issue 45: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 45
published_at: "2015-12-16"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/45"
---

WebOps Weekly 45   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/45) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 45 — December 16, 2015     

[What I’ve Learned From Monitoring 4 Years of Web Page Bloat](http://www.soasta.com/blog/page-bloat-2015-web-performance-monitoring/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Web performance expert Tammy Everts reflects on years of experience and data, noting that the average Web page today is 2219KB in size, compared to 991KB just four years ago. Tammy Everts [Taking Let's Encrypt for a Spin](https://timkadlec.com/2015/12/taking-lets-encrypt-for-a-spin/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion [Let’s Encrypt](https://letsencrypt.org/) is a new certificate authority offering free SSL/TLS certificates - how easy is it to get started? Tim Kadlec [t2.nano Instances Now Available on EC2](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-update-t2-nano-instances-now-available/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news t2.nano instances provide a baseline level of processing power with the open to save up unused cycles for future use. Each t2.nano instance has 512MB of memory and 1 vCPU, and costs as little as $2.10 per month. Amazon [[WEBINAR\] DNS Resolution and its Impact on User Experience](http://pages.catchpoint.com/OpsCast-DNS-Monitoring-Verisign.html?LSD=SPON-WebOpsWeekly) DNS resolution has a bigger impact on web performance than you might have thought. Verisign shares tactics they use to ensure the impact is positive. Catchpointsponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/97b609ab.jpg)](http://pages.catchpoint.com/OpsCast-DNS-Monitoring-Verisign.html?LSD=SPON-WebOpsWeekly) [Can We Use Jenkins for That?](http://engineering.simondata.com/can-we-use-jenkins-for-that/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion A look at how one company uses the open-source continuous integration server as their ‘universal hammer’ for things like admin tools and running long running scripts. Jason Davis [Upping Your Web Security Game](https://24ways.org/2015/upping-your-web-security-game/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Some high level reflections on becoming more familiar with Web security concerns. Guy Podjarny [The Web Accessibility Basics](https://www.marcozehe.de/2015/12/14/the-web-accessibility-basics/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) An accessibility QA engineer at Mozilla shares a list of the ‘absolute basics’ of Web accessibility every Web developer should know about. Marco Zehe [Smaller, Faster Websites](https://bocoup.com/weblog/smaller-faster-websites?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Mat Marquis summarizes his presentation at various conferences focusing on ways developers can reduce the size and increase the speed of the mobile web sites they build. Bocoup [How NATS, a REST Alternative, Provides Messaging for Distributed Systems](http://thenewstack.io/nats-rest-alternative-provides-messaging-distributed-systems/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion tools NATS.io is an open-source, cloud-native messaging system for distributed systems. The New Stack In brief [Fixed Price Ruby on Rails Ops? Seriously?](https://www.reinteractive.net/service/ops-care?sid=15) OpsCare by reinteractive provides OaaS for Rails apps letting your team get on with building features instead of worrying about your servers... Go on, give your team a break these holidays and let us wear the pagers! Reinteractivesponsored [WebPageTest: Year in Review](http://calendar.perfplanet.com/2015/webpagetest-year-in-review/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news tools Patrick Meenan [YouTube Audio Quality Bitrate Used For 360p, 480p, 720p, 1080p, 1440p, 2160p](http://www.h3xed.com/web-and-internet/youtube-audio-quality-bitrate-240p-360p-480p-720p-1080p?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Nick Vogt [Encrypted EBS Boot Volumes on AWS](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-encrypted-ebs-boot-volumes/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Amazon [Compressing UserTiming Data](http://calendar.perfplanet.com/2015/compressing-usertiming/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Nic Jansma [Using CloudWatch to Monitor AWS S3 Buckets](https://appsdash.io/blog/aws-s3-cloudwatch-monitoring.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial AppsDash [The Amazon Web Services Price List API](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-price-list-api/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools news Provides a programmatic way to access prices for Amazon’s Web Services. Amazon [Dreamfactory simplifies data connections for web apps](https://www.dreamfactory.com/features?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=webapp) tools Free and open source, DreamFactory automatically generates REST APIs from nearly any data source. We'll even host it for you for free. DreamFactorysponsored [Snap: A Powerful Telemetry Framework from Intel](https://github.com/intelsdi-x/snap?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Snap is a plugin-based framework for enabling the gathering of telemetry from systems. Intel SDI [Apollo: Java Libraries Spotify Uses for Writing Microservices](http://spotify.github.io/apollo/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Spotify    [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/45) [See our archives](http://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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