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title: "Issue 50: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 50
published_at: "2016-01-27"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/50"
---

WebOps Weekly 50   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/50) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 50 — January 27, 2016     

[OneOps: A Multi-Cloud App Lifecycle Management Platform](http://www.oneops.com/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools A cloud management and application lifecycle management platform that lets developers code their products to work on multiple clouds, allowing the easy migration of apps between providers. Walmart Labs [Free SSL With Amazon's AWS Certificate Manager](https://dpron.com/ssl-with-aws-certificate-manager/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial AWS has introduced an SSL certificate issuing service solely for use with AWS services. This brief tutorial demonstrates how to use it. Dan Roncadin [Leaner Responsive Images With Client Hints](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/01/leaner-responsive-images-client-hints/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Client Hints is an initiative spearheaded by Google already available in Chrome and Opera that lets you reduce both image sizes and the verbosity of responsive image markup. Smashing Magazine [Fixed Price Ruby on Rails Ops? Seriously?](https://www.reinteractive.net/service/ops-care?sid=41) Yes! We've built one of the world's most robust and stable Operations as a Service platforms running on your own dedicated AWS account. Get your Ruby on Rails app supported 24/7 by our dedicated team from $1 per hour for each app. Reinteractivesponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/0799de10.png)](https://www.reinteractive.net/service/ops-care?sid=41) [Performance Budget Builder](http://codepen.io/bradfrost/full/EPQVBp/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Lets you lay out your template types, set a size budget for each template type, then plug in the sizes for each asset category that will load in the template. Brad Frost [The Benefits of Microcaching with NGINX](https://www.nginx.com/blog/benefits-of-microcaching-nginx/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Microcaching is the short term caching of dynamic but non-personalized content. This article looks at how to accelerate a WordPress-based app by up to 400x with a microcaching technique. Owen Garrett [Fake It As You Make It: Why Fake Services Are Awesome for Developers](https://medium.com/@dwolla/fake-it-as-you-make-it-why-fake-services-are-awesome-for-developers-ff8988963af4?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A look at the concept of using ‘fake’ services within development environments to make both testing and development easier, coupled with a real example from Dwolla. Dwolla [Will Microservices Make the 'Ops' in 'DevOps' Obsolete?](http://devops.com/2016/01/26/will-microservices-make-ops-devops-obsolete/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) As more elements of DevOps become automated and leverage microservices such as container platforms, the operations side plays a diminished role. Tony Bradley [Rise of the Container-Focused Operating Systems](http://thenewstack.io/docker-fuels-rethinking-operating-system/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A quick look at CoreOS, RancherOS, Ubuntu Snappy, VMware Photon, Red Hat Atomic Host, and Microsoft Nano Server. The New Stack [Building A Static Site with A Web Framework](https://medium.com/@albertstill/building-a-static-site-with-a-web-application-framework-using-wget-aws-s3-cli-circleci-5b9285d1af1d?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial The idea is you can still use Rails or Sinatra, say, but then make the site static with wget, AWS S3, and CircleCI. Albert Still 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 [Announcing The First Technical Preview of Microsoft Azure Stack](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-the-first-technical-preview-of-microsoft-azure-stack/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Microsoft Azure Blog [Upgrade to Core Internet Protocol Can Boost Speeds 30 Percent](http://www.technologyreview.com/news/546001/upgrade-to-core-internet-protocol-can-boost-speeds-30-percent/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news MIT Technology Review [Trinity Mirror Taps Into Cloud, Agile and Microservices to Boost Web User Experience](http://www.computerweekly.com/news/4500271221/Trinity-Mirror-Group-uses-cloud-and-performance-monitoring-to-boost-website-users-experience?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Caroline Donnelly [Free eBook: Automate your Development Workflow with Docker](http://resources.codeship.com/ebooks/automate-development-workflow-with-docker?utm_source=webopsweeklysecondary) tutorial In this free Codeship eBook you will learn how to use Docker to solve the problems of inconsistent environments on varying deployment targets and how to build an app to run inside an isolated Docker Container. Codeshipsponsored [Serving Static Sites with Fastly, S3, and Middleman](https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/serving-static-sites-with-fastly.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial HashiCorp [AWS Elastic Beanstalk Survival Guide: Introduction](http://colintoh.com/blog/aws-elastic-beanstalk-survival-guide-introduction?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial A beginner’s guide to effectively deploy and manage applications on AWS with Elastic Beanstalk. Colin Toh [1 to 1000 - Scaling a Rails App on Heroku](https://joinhandshake.com/engineering/scaling/heroku/2016/01/15/1-to-1000-scaling-a-rails-app-on-heroku.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Some quick tips from a team that’s 10x scaled a Ruby app on Heroku. Drew Zader [Rolling out HTTPS with Let's Encrypt and NGINX](http://botleg.com/stories/https-with-lets-encrypt-and-nginx/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Hanzel Jesheen [Using AWS Aurora (Amazon's MySQL-Compatible Database)](http://blog.goguardian.com/nerds/using-aws-aurora?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video Advait Shinde shows how his company uses Amazon Aurora to improve scalability by decreasing replica lag and bypassing limitations inherit in enterprise-grade relational databases like AWS RDS. GoGuardian [Use Google For Throughput, Amazon And Azure For Low Latency](http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/1/18/use-google-for-throughput-amazon-and-azure-for-low-latency.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion High Scalability [Top 11 AWS IAM Best Practices](http://ifdattic.com/top-11-aws-iam-best-practices/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Andrew Marcinkevičius [The Ten Commandments of Microservices](http://thenewstack.io/ten-commandments-microservices/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion The New Stack [Get Small To Get Big Through Microservices](http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/23/get-small-to-get-big-through-microservices/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion TechCrunch [Staging Servers Must Die](http://readwrite.com/2016/01/22/staging-servers?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion “So continuous delivery may live.” Read Write [You Are Most Likely Misusing Docker](http://www.mpscholten.de/docker/2016/01/27/you-are-most-likely-misusing-docker.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Marc Scholten [MySQL in Docker or Native – Performance Benchmarks](http://blog.balazspocze.me/2016/01/26/mysql-in-docker-or-native-performance-benchmarks/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Balázs Pőcze [Why BootstrapCDN Believes in SRI (Subresource Integrity) and You Should Too](https://www.maxcdn.com/blog/bootstrapcdn-subresource-integrity/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Justin Dorfman [Deployer: A Deployment Tool for PHP](http://deployer.org/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Elfet [Goad: An AWS-Lambda Powered, Highly Distributed Load Testing Tool](https://github.com/gophergala2016/goad?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Goad allows you to load test your sites from all over the world while costing you fractions of a penny by using AWS Lambda in multiple regions simultaneously. Gopher Gala 2016 [RestBus: High Perf, Asynchronous Messaging and Queueing for .NET Endpoints](http://restbus.org/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Sunny Ahuwanya    [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/50) [See our archives](http://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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