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title: "Issue 51: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 51
published_at: "2016-02-03"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/51"
---

WebOps Weekly 51   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/51) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 51 — February 3, 2016     

[23 Experts Share Web Performance Advice and Mistakes](https://www.keycdn.com/blog/web-performance-advice/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Folks like Jeff Atwood, Patrick Meenan, and Sara Soueidan were asked what common web performance mistakes they see and what single thing they would optimize for. Brian Jackson [ngx_pagespeed: An NGINX Module for Rewriting Pages for Performance](http://ngxpagespeed.com/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools An module created by Google that rewrites pages to reduce latency and bandwidth. Google [Free eBook: Orchestrate Containers with Docker Compose](http://resources.codeship.com/ebooks/orchestrate-containers-with-docker-compose?utm_source=webopsweeklyprimary) In this free Codeship eBook you will learn what Docker Compose is, how it works, and how to easily recreate a microservice architecture on your dev machine with Docker Compose. Codeshipsponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/a615decb.png)](http://resources.codeship.com/ebooks/orchestrate-containers-with-docker-compose?utm_source=webopsweeklyprimary) [Planning On Moving to HTTPS? 13 Tips From Google's Search Team](https://plus.google.com/+JohnMueller/posts/PY1xCWbeDVC?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Including how to do A/B tests, partial HTTPS use, PageRank changes, and more. Google [6-Part Guide to NGINX Application Performance Optimization](https://www.maxcdn.com/blog/nginx-application-performance-optimization/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A guide focusing on NGINX’s reverse proxying functionality, with a ton of simple and powerful ways to optimize it for rich content applications. MaxCDN [Introducing the Security Panel in Chrome 48 Beta DevTools](http://blog.chromium.org/2016/01/introducing-security-panel-in-devtools.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) The new Security panel is useful for diagnosing certificate, TLS, and subresource security issues. Chromium Blog [Facebook Shutting Down Parse](http://blog.parse.com/announcements/moving-on/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Parse was/is a popular provider of back-end services for mobile apps. It was acquired by Facebook and is being shut down. They have open sourced [a server app](http://blog.parse.com/announcements/introducing-parse-server-and-the-database-migration-tool/) to help users migrate away. Parse Jobs [Site Reliability Engineer with MyDrive, London](http://www.mydrivesolutions.com/site_reliability_engineer) We need a smart engineer with 3+ years experience to develop the future of Telematics through customer facing technologies. You will be commercially experienced in delivering production services in the cloud to real consumers and be ready to get stuck in as part of a great team here at MyDrive. MyDrive Solutions [Stop Applying to Jobs - Let Companies Apply to You](https://hired.com/?utm_source=newsletters&utm_medium=webopsweekly&utm_term=cat-tech-webops&utm_content=stopapplyingtojobs&utm_campaign=q1-16&utm_location=us) On Hired, sign up in 10 minutes and get offers from top companies like Facebook, Uber, & Stripe. Engineers get an average of 5 offers on the platform in 1 week. Try it today. Hired.​com In brief [Heroku Private Spaces Now Generally Available](https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2016/1/26/heroku_private_spaces_are_now_generally_available_within_heroku_enterprise?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Heroku [Chrome Enables link rel=preload Support By Default](https://codereview.chromium.org/1636303003?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Chromium [AWS Lambda: A Guide to Serverless Microservices](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B016JOMAEE?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news A Kindle book by Matthew Fuller Amazon [Login Forms over HTTPS, Please](https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/01/login-forms-over-https-please/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Firefox 46 Developer Edition displays a prominent warning when pages with password fields are not server over HTTPS. Mozilla Hacks [Imagine Someone Else Waking Up to Site Crashes for You…](https://www.reinteractive.net/service/ops-care?sid=42&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools On OpsCare, your Ruby on Rails app is monitored and supported 24/7 by our dedicated ops team from less than $1 per hour. We wear the pagers so you can rest assured any hiccups are handled, and keep sleeping :) Reinteractivesponsored [Tips for Scaling Your Application on AWS](https://medium.com/@roshanpaiva/scaling-your-application-on-aws-3f210ef18693?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Roshan Paiva [Third-Party Scripts And Your Site: 10 Tips for Web Performance](http://www.conversionconference.com/blog/third-party-scripts-and-your-website-10-tips-for-web-performance/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Tammy Everts [Deploying A Haskell Web Service With Nix](http://jezenthomas.com/deploying-a-haskell-web-service-with-nix/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Jezen Thomas [The Many Ways of Handling TCP RST Packets](https://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2016-02-01-tcp-rst/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial A real deep dive into TCP. Juho Snellman [The Evolution of Docker](https://www.kentik.com/the-evolution-of-docker/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Ian Applegate [Benefits of Cross-Functional Teams When Building Microservices](https://blog.risingstack.com/benefits-of-cross-functional-teams-when-building-microservices/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Rising Stack [A (Very) Quick Look at Patreon's Architecture](http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/2/1/a-patreon-architecture-short.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Patreon is a popular crowdfunding service. High Scalability [How API Aggregators Help Business Units Build Automated Workflows, Bypass IT](http://thenewstack.io/api-aggregators-help-business-units-work-build-sophisticated-workflows-bypass/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion The New Stack [CloudFlare’s Impact On The HTTP/2 'Universe'](https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-impact-on-the-http-2-universe/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Christian Elsen [Node-Big-Rig: A Module and CLI Tool for Doing Trace Analysis](https://github.com/GoogleChrome/node-big-rig?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Command line based analysis of traces from WebPagetest or Chrome’s DevTools. Google [Responsive Images in 30 Minutes or Less](https://www.imgix.com/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2016-02-03-webops-weekly) tools With imgix, integrating responsive images into your site could not be easier. imgix is fully-compatible with the srcset attribute, the picture element, and Client Hints. Learn how to start delivering responsive images in less than 30 minutes. imgixsponsored [Building Realtime, Live-Updating Displays with JavaScript and a JSON Push Cache](http://www.piperpushcache.com/opslog_build.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Piper Push Cache [Lelylan: A Microservices-Based IoT Cloud Platform](https://github.com/lelylan/lelylan?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code lelylan [An Example of Asynchronous CSS Loading with link[rel=preload\]](http://filamentgroup.github.io/loadCSS/test/preload.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Filament Group    [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/51) [See our archives](http://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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