---
title: "Issue 47: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 47
published_at: "2016-01-06"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/47"
---

WebOps Weekly 47   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/47) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 47 — January 6, 2016     

[Global IPv6 Deployment Passes 10%](http://www.circleid.com/posts/20160104_global_ipv6_deployment_now_passes_10/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Google’s IPv6 adoption statistics showed over 10% of users connecting to Google’s sites coming in over IPv6 (or 25% in the US and 44% in Belgium). “The point is that IPv6 deployment IS happening!” Dan York [AWS S3 vs Google Cloud vs Azure for Cloud Storage Performance](http://blog.zachbjornson.com/2015/12/29/cloud-storage-performance.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A developer needs to process large amounts of scientific data quickly, so he did some analysis of performance on three clouds with a few different approaches. Zach Bjornson [Average Page Weight Increased Another 16% in 2015](http://www.sitepoint.com/average-page-weight-increased-another-16-2015/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Data from HTTP Archive shows that average page weight increased 16% to 2,262KB in 2015. SitePoint [Calculate How Much You Can Save by Avoiding Expensive DDoS Outages](http://lp.incapsula.com/ddos-downtime-cost-calculator.html?utm_source=WebOps&utm_medium=displayad&utm_campaign=2015_Q4_DDoS_Calculator) DDoS attacks, including [100+ Gbps network layer attacks]( https://www.incapsula.com/ddos-report/ddos-report-q3-2015.html) are becoming more common. If your website is not currently protected from application and network layer DDoS attacks, you may run up high downtime costs. Find out how much you can save by protecting your site against a cyber attack with the Incapsula [DDoS Cost Calculator](http://lp.incapsula.com/ddos-downtime-cost-calculator.html?utm_source=WebOps&utm_medium=displayad&utm_campaign=2015_Q4_DDoS_Calculator). Incapsulasponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/7ce827d5.png)](http://lp.incapsula.com/ddos-downtime-cost-calculator.html?utm_source=WebOps&utm_medium=displayad&utm_campaign=2015_Q4_DDoS_Calculator) [Extracting Actionable Insights From Web Perf Optimizations](http://calendar.perfplanet.com/2015/extracting-actionable-insights-from-web-perf-optimizations/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Once you’ve identified a possible lead, and taken the time to refactor and optimize it, it’s important to follow-up by properly validating and understanding the impact of your change. Yonatan Mevorach [How to Install the ELK Stack on AWS](http://producation-site-lb-1166584198.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com/blog/install-elk-stack-amazon-aws/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial ELK is a stack for log aggregation and analytics, standing for Elasticsearch (a NoSQL store and search server), Logstash (a log parsing service), and Kibana. Asaf Yigal [The Seven Deadly Sins of Microservices](http://www.infoq.com/presentations/7-sins-microservices?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video A 48 minute talk by Daniel Bryant on 7 different microservices antipatterns that should be avoided. InfoQ [Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About SSL](http://www.robinhowlett.com/blog/2016/01/05/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-ssl-but-were-afraid-to-ask/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Or, more accurately, a variety of useful things, techniques, and approaches one developer has picked up and wants to share. Robin Howlett [Images, Scripts and Redirects Are Slowing Down the Top Mobile Travel Sites](http://www.webperformancetoday.com/2015/12/16/were-not-there-yet-images-scripts-and-redirects-are-slowing-down-the-top-mobile-travel-sites/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Among other findings, this test found that the median travel page took 6.7 seconds to load on the iPhone 6 and 5.5 seconds to load on the iPhone 5, exceeding the 4 second target. Web Performance Today Jobs [Director Of Engineering At StatusPage.io (Denver, CO)](https://jobs.lever.co/statuspageio/dfb39373-4e72-449c-82e6-00c1cdedec4f?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) We’re making it easier for companies to be more transparent with their customers. Your P&L will be dev speed, code coverage, SLA performance, team morale, and all the other things that come with leading a web development team. StatusPage.​io In brief [EC2 Price Reduction on C4, M4, and R3 Instances](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/happy-new-year-ec2-price-reduction-c4-m4-and-r3-instances/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Amazon [Gzip Compression Support for Amazon CloudFront](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-gzip-compression-support-for-amazon-cloudfront/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Amazon [An Introduction to vibe.d: Writing A Scalable Chat Room Service in D](https://vibed.org/blog/posts/a-scalable-chat-room-service-in-d?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Sönke Ludwig [Getting Started with Kubernetes on Google Container Engine](http://omerio.com/2016/01/02/getting-started-with-kubernetes-on-google-container-engine/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Omer Dawelbeit [Google Analytics: Pull Your True Speed](http://calendar.perfplanet.com/2015/google-analytics-pull-your-true-speed/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Mike Schoeffler [Setting Up a Let's Encrypt SSL Certificate on Amazon CloudFront](https://richardkall.se/setup-lets-encrypt-ssl-certificate-on-amazon-cloudfront/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Richard Käll [We Paid $10k for A Domain and All We Got Was Less Traffic](https://medium.com/swlh/we-paid-10k-for-a-domain-and-all-we-got-was-less-traffic-536554ca50d8?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Crew [Op-Ed: Why DevOps Needs To Embrace the Database](http://thenewstack.io/op-ed-devops-needs-embrace-database-2/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion The New Stack [WebSockets, Caution Required](https://samsaffron.com/archive/2015/12/29/websockets-caution-required?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Sam Saffron [How Apache Brooklyn Helped IBM SoftLayer Auto-Scale a Heavy Workload](http://thenewstack.io/apache-brooklyn-helped-ibm-softlayer-auto-scale-heavy-workload/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion The New Stack [How to Choose An In-Memory NoSQL Solution: Performance Measuring](http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/12/30/how-to-choose-an-in-memory-nosql-solution-performance-measur.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion High Scalability [The Power, Patterns, and Pains of Microservices](https://dzone.com/articles/the-power-patterns-and-pains-of-microservices?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Joshua Long [Microservices at Spotify](http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/12/microservices-spotify?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion InfoQ [Google on Secure Container Storage and Why Patching Should be Obsolete](http://thenewstack.io/tns-makers-google-secure-container-storage-patching-obsolete/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) podcast The New Stack [Affordable Custom Application Monitoring](https://instrumentalapp.com/?utm_source=devopsweekly&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=lots-of-services) tools Got lots of servers? Stop paying per-host monitoring costs. [Free 30-day trial.](https://instrumentalapp.com/?utm_source=devopsweekly&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=lots-of-services) Instrumentalsponsored [apex: Minimal AWS Lambda Function Manager with Go Support](https://github.com/apex/apex?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Apex [Anthelion: A Nutch Plugin to Crawl Semantic Annotations in HTML Pages](https://github.com/yahoo/anthelion?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Yahoo Inc.​ [Docker Nginxify: Automates Exposing Docker Containers via NGINX](https://github.com/fabiofumarola/docker-nginxify?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Fabio Fumarola    [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/47) [See our archives](http://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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