--- title: "Issue 49: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news" publication: "StatusCode Weekly" issue: 49 published_at: "2016-01-20" canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/49" --- WebOps Weekly 49 . The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/49) [![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 49 — January 20, 2016 [Apex: Serverless Architecture with AWS Lambda](https://medium.com/@tjholowaychuk/introducing-apex-800824ffaa70?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Apex is a small program written in Go for managing “serverless” architecture via AWS Lambda, allowing you to focus on code instead of infrastructure. TJ Holowaychuk [Get Alerts for Expiring SSL Certificates](https://serverlesscode.com/post/ssl-expiration-alerts-with-lambda/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Forgetting to renew your SSL certificates can cause major issues and has affected many (such as Stripe and Facebook). This article covers creating an AWS Lambda function to send you email, SMS, or Slack alerts. Serverless Code [How I Sped Up My Site 68.35% With One Line of Code](http://ipullrank.com/how-i-sped-up-my-site-68-percent-with-one-line-of-code/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) The author has to reassure us that this is not clickbait :-) The techniques used are prerender and prefetch directives to speed up rendering of new pages. Mike King [Decrease Page Weight and Load Times with Responsive Images](https://www.imgix.com/?utm_source=web-ops-weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2016-01-20-web-ops-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=web-ops-weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2016-01-20-web-ops-weekly) [The One Cent Blog](https://hugotunius.se/aws/cloudflare/web/2016/01/10/the-one-cent-blog.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) How one developer runs his blog at a cost of a cent per month using S3, Jekyll, Cloudflare and Travis-CI. Hugo Tunius [Adventures in High Speed Networking on Azure](http://www.ageofascent.com/azure-cloud-high-speed-networking/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A look at how a gaming company is serving 6.8 million requests per second at 9 Gbps from a single Azure VM. Illyriad Games [Designing Schemaless, Uber Engineering’s Scalable Datastore](https://eng.uber.com/schemaless-part-one/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Uber has developed its own MySQL-based schemaless storage system. This article explains why and how it came together. Uber Engineering [Webmention: A Spec to Notify Remote URLs When You Link to Them](https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/WD-webmention-20160112/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A W3C First Public Working Draft of a spec covering a mechanism through which sites can ask to be notified when other sites link to them. [webmention.io](https://webmention.io/) is a service aiming to help make it easier to implement. W3C [Why Always Docker?](http://pointlessramblings.com/posts/Why_Always_Docker/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion “There is a trend, however, of using Docker containers for everything, and this makes no sense to me.” Pointless Ramblings [Announcing NGINX Plus R8](https://www.nginx.com/blog/nginx-plus-r8-released/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Plus is the enterprise-level version of NGINX’s HTTP and TCP server. R8 includes production-ready HTTP/2 support, an on-the-fly reconfiguration API, and a preview of an OAuth-based authentication system. NGINX [Yelp Releases an Initialization System for Docker Containers](http://thenewstack.io/yelp-releases-initialization-system-docker-containers/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news tools Yelp, an early adopter of Linux containers, has released an initialization system that runs inside of Docker containers, called dumb-init, designed to eliminate signaling issues that can spawn zombie processes. The New Stack Jobs [Apply to 3,000+ Jobs in 10 Minutes & 1 Application](https://hired.com/?utm_source=newsletters&utm_medium=webopsweekly&utm_term=cat-tech-webops&utm_content=3kcompaniesin10min&utm_campaign=q1-16&utm_location=us) Top companies apply to you on Hired. Get salary and equity upfront before interviewing. Hired.​com In brief [Apex Makes AWS Lambda Easy Peasy for Programmers](http://thenewstack.io/apex-makes-aws-lambda-easy-peasy-programmers/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news tools The New Stack [Announcing a Private Beta for NGINX Amplify](https://www.nginx.com/blog/announcing-amplify/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news tools A tool designed to monitor your application delivery infrastructure. NGINX [Has Your Rails App Got the Ops Infrastructure it Deserves?](https://www.reinteractive.net/service/ops-care?sid=40) Let us take care of your ops and get your site performing at it's best! 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[Ask for OpsCare today.](https://www.reinteractive.net/service/ops-care?sid=40) Reinteractivesponsored [Scalable C: Writing Large-Scale Distributed C](https://hintjens.gitbooks.io/scalable-c/content/preface.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Pieter Hintjens [Parsing 10TB of Metadata, 26M Domain Names and 1.4M SSL Certs for $10 on AWS](http://blog.waleson.com/2016/01/parsing-10tb-of-metadata-26m-domains.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Jouke-Thiemo Waleson [Front-End Servers and Client-Side Random Load Balancing](http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/1/4/server-side-architecture-front-end-servers-and-client-side-r.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial High Scalability [Google Is Winning The Cloud Pricing and Performance War](http://www.techrepublic.com/article/google-is-winning-the-cloud-pricing-and-performance-war/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion TechRepublic [Riemann: A Distributed Systems Monitor](http://riemann.io/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Riemann aggregates events from your servers and applications with a powerful stream processing language. Kyle Kingsbury [tcpdive: A TCP Performance Profiling Tool](https://github.com/fastos/tcpdive/blob/master/README.md?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Provides insight into TCP by monitoring and analysing mass data collected from a running Linux kernel. Fastos [AWRStudyr: A Chrome Extension Showing Insights About A Page](http://red-team-design.com/awrstudyr-chrome-extension/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Things like which Web server, analytics tools, ad networks and frameworks are being used. Catalin Rosu [Introducing Frock: Easy Fake Services for A Microservices Environment](https://www.urbanairship.com/blog/introducing-frock-easy-fake-services-for-a-microservices-environment?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Urban Airship [Nativefier: Wrap Any Web Page Natively on Windows, OS X or Linux](https://github.com/jiahaog/nativefier?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools code Could be handy for any dashboards or services you have. Jia Hao [vhostm: Manage Nginx Virtual Servers and Hosts File Entries](https://github.com/eatonphil/vhostm?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Phil Eaton [Killed by Proxy: Analyzing Client-end TLS Interception Software [PDF\]](http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~mmannan/publications/ssl-interception-ndss2016.pdf?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) An academic paper. Carné de Carnavalet and Mannan [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/49) [See our archives](http://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*) [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*) Published by [Cooperpress](https://cooperpress.com/) Fairfield Enterprise Centre, Lincoln Way, Louth, LN11 0LS, UK