---
title: "Issue 54: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 54
published_at: "2016-02-24"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/54"
---

WebOps Weekly 54   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/54) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 54 — February 24, 2016     

[Delivering Fast and Light Applications with Save-Data](https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2016/02/save-data?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A new ‘Save-Data’ client hint request header available in Chrome and Opera lets developers deliver fast and light applications to users who have opted-in to ‘data savings’ mode in their browser. Ilya Grigorik [Project Dino: Large-Scale Load Testing With AWS Lambda](http://veldstra.org/2016/02/18/project-dino-load-testing-on-lambda-with-artillery.html?hn=&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Lets you run large scale load tests from AWS Lambda. Up to 100 lambdas can be spun up, each sending 500-1000 RPS for 50k-100k RPS in total. Hassy Veldstra [Getting Ready For HTTP/2: A Guide For Web Developers](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/02/getting-ready-for-http2/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial A practical and thorough look at the basics of HTTP/2 as they apply to web developers. Rachel Andrew [Introducing Jet: Continuous Integration with native Docker Support](http://pages.codeship.com/docker?utm_source=webopsweeklyprimary) Codeship's Jet lets you use your existing Dockerfiles and images on any registry. Easily spawn up your microservices and run integration tests for your whole system using your docker-compose file. [Try it now for free.](http://pages.codeship.com/docker?utm_source=webopsweeklyprimary) Codeshipsponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/d4fd1ae7.png)](http://pages.codeship.com/docker?utm_source=webopsweeklyprimary) [Measuring Nginx Cache Performance using Lua and Redis](http://charlesleifer.com/blog/measuring-nginx-cache-performance-using-lua-and-redis/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial A look at rolling your own internal Nginx analytics with Lua, cosockets and Redis. Charles Leifer [Varnish Cache Turns 10: A Q&A With The Man Behind The Idea](http://info.varnish-software.com/blog/celebrating-10-years-of-varnish-cache-qa-with-the-man-behind-the-idea?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Anders Berg wrote a spec on which the commonly used Varnish Cache is based. Varnish Software [How We Built Uber Engineering’s Highest Query per Second Service Using Go](https://eng.uber.com/go-geofence/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion How Uber approached building a geofence lookup system in Go and how Go has helped them build and scale it so quickly. Uber [How Apache Is Losing The Web To NGINX](http://www.nextplatform.com/2016/02/24/how-apache-is-losing-the-web-to-nginx/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion This is a bit one sided but includes data as well as an interview with Owen Garrett, head of products at NGINX. The Next Platform [linkerd: Twitter-Style Operability for Microservices](https://blog.buoyant.io/2016/02/18/linkerd-twitter-style-operability-for-microservices/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) An introduction to [linkerd](https://linkerd.io/), a modern RPC proxy for microservices that does load balancing, analytics, runtime routing, etc. It’s built on top of a Twitter technology called Finagle. William Morgan [How and Why GitHub Switched to SVG for Its Icons](https://github.com/blog/2112-delivering-octicons-with-svg?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) GitHub.com no longer delivers its icons via an icon font - it has switched to SVG. Here’s a look at the why and how. GitHub Jobs [Operations Engineer (Remote - US/UK/CAN)](https://compose.io/jobs#operations-engineer) Compose provides powerful, managed, auto-scaling databases. If you have experience working with distributed systems, and love solving fun data-related problems, we have the perfect opportunity for you! Compose, an IBM company [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 [nginx 1.9.12: Now with Huffman Encoding of HTTP/2 Response Headers](https://marc.ttias.be/nginx-announce/2016-02/msg00001.php?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Maxim Dounin [CloudFlare Launches Registrar to Prevent DNS Hijacking Attacks](http://www.zdnet.com/article/cloudflare-launches-registrar-to-prevent-dns-hijacking-attacks/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news A new security-focused registrar that demands companies have multiple employees approve changes to domain name settings. ZDNet [Amazon RDS Now Supports MySQL 5.7](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/02/amazon-rds-now-supports-mysql-5-7/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Amazon [Docker Offers an Enterprise 'Containers-as-a-Service' Package](http://thenewstack.io/docker-offers-enterprise-containers-service-package/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news The New Stack [Microsoft to Acquire Xamarin](http://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2016/02/24/microsoft-to-acquire-xamarin-and-empower-more-developers-to-build-apps-on-any-device/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Microsoft [Introducing DoveCôte: A PaaS for Microservices](https://medium.com/@dashersw/introducing-dovec%C3%B4te-f9383a34ed09?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Armağan Amcalar [How to Use AWS Lambda for Cheap S3 Content Processing](http://docs.scanii.com/articles/aws-lambda-for-cheap-s3-content-processing.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Uva Software [Using Docker for an Existing Rails Application](http://chrisstump.online/2016/02/20/docker-existing-rails-application/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Chris Stump [How to get more performance from MongoDB with Redis](https://www.compose.io/articles/why-and-how-to-redis-with-your-mongodb/?utm_source=cooper&utm_medium=webops&utm_campaign=why-and-how-redis) tutorial Are you loading your database up with work it doesn't really need to be doing? If this rings true to you, maybe it's time you met Redis. Composesponsored [Using Varnish Cache as a Secured AWS S3 Gateway](http://info.varnish-software.com/blog/using-varnish-cache-secured-aws-s3-gateway?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Reza Naghibi [SSL Strip for Newbies](https://avicoder.me/2016/02/22/SSLstrip-for-newbies/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial A look at a vulnerability where a site’s access is downgraded from https to http. avicoder [HLS Video Hotlink Protection with Nginx and Varnish](http://benwilber.github.io/streamboat.tv/nginx/varnish/hotlink/video/streaming/hls/2016/02/06/hls-video-hotlink-protection-with-nginx-and-varnish.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Ben Wilber [Let's Encrypt: What Launching A Free CA Looks Like](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ0JMl1B7yY&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video A 30 minute talk. YouTube [How National Rail Enquiries Tackles Website Uptime Issues with AWS and SOASTA](http://www.computerweekly.com/news/4500273526/Case-study-National-Rail-Enquiries-tackles-website-uptime-issues-with-AWS-and-Soasta?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Caroline Donnelly [Heroku Embraces CI/CD by Automating Staging on GitHub](http://thenewstack.io/heroku-officially-embraces-cicd-automating-staging-github/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion The New Stack [Top 5 Linux Utilities for Network Engineers](https://netbeez.net/2016/02/18/top-5-linux-utilities-for-network-engineers/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Quick looks at nmap, tcpdump, iperf, hping3, and netcat. NetBeez [ClaudiaJS: Deploy Node.js Microservices to AWS](https://github.com/claudiajs/claudia?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools ClaudiaJS [MSF4J: WSO2 Microservices Framework for Java](https://github.com/wso2/msf4j?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Lightweight high perf framework for developing and running microservices. WSO2 [dock: A Micro 'init' System for Linux Containers](https://github.com/robinmonjo/dock?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Robin Monjo [Install a Parse Server and Deploy Code with git push](https://github.com/ArnaudValensi/docker-parse-server-git-deploy?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Arnaud Valensi [Rails Ops Hassling You?](https://www.reinteractive.net/service/ops-care?sid=45) reinteractive takes the hassle out of your Ruby on Rails ops with our custom-made, robust and stable Operations as a Service platforms running on your own AWS account. 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