---
title: "Issue 55: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 55
published_at: "2016-03-03"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/55"
---

WebOps Weekly 55   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/55) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 55 — March 3, 2016     

[The DROWN Attack: A New OpenSSL Vulnerability](https://drownattack.com/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A server is vulnerable to DROWN if it allows SSLv2 connections or its private key is used on any other server that does. This is shown to affect at least 25% of the top 1 million sites. drownattack.​com [How to Deploy Software: A Guide](https://zachholman.com/posts/deploying-software?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) ‘Make your team’s deploys as boring as hell and stop stressing about it,’ says Zach Holman. Lots of great insights in this well presented guide. Zach Holman [An Introduction to IPv6](https://www.internetsociety.org/tutorials/exploring-ipv6?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A free online course that provides a primer for anyone interested in better understanding IPv6. Internet Society [Decrease Page Weight and Load Times with Responsive Images](https://www.imgix.com/?utm_source=web-ops-weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2016-03-02-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=2016-03-02-web-ops-weekly) [5 Dirty Little Secrets of Web Performance](https://www.instartlogic.com/blog/secrets-of-web-performance?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Mostly oriented around how metrics can hard to manage or represent properly, and how the actual user experience trumps the numbers. Dawn Parzych [A Look at Widespread XSS Vulnerabilities in Ad Network Code](http://randywestergren.com/widespread-xss-vulnerabilities-ad-network-code-affecting-top-tier-publishers-retailers/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A look at the actual code being served up, what’s going on, and how it’s even affecting major publishers and retailers. Randy Westergren [How to Separate Your AWS Production and Dev Accounts](http://blog.codeship.com/separate-aws-production-and-development-accounts/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial A walk through of setting up a separate account and enabling consolidated billing so you can do more with AWS from a developer POV. Florian Motlik [Using The Biggest Virtual Machine in Microsoft Azure's Cloud](https://www.petri.com/using-the-biggest-virtual-machine-in-microsoft-azures-cloud?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Aidan had some credit to burn, so ran up a GS5 instance with 32 cores, 448GB RAM, and 64 terabytes of SSD storage. Aidan Finn [CPP: A Standardized Alternative to AMP](https://timkadlec.com/2016/02/a-standardized-alternative-to-amp/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Google’s [Accelerated Mobile Pages](https://www.ampproject.org/) project is aiming to improve Web performance on mobile devices, but Tim Kadlec thinks there are other, more standards-based ways to reach similar ends. Tim Kadlec [Unlocking New Features with a Database-Free Architecture](https://moz.com/devblog/moz-analytics-db-free/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A look at how a busy search data service moved from MySQL to a programming language specific binary marshalling approach, and why. Moz Jobs [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 [DROWN Attack Shows Danger of Supporting Old SSL V2 Protocol](https://www.feistyduck.com/bulletproof-tls-newsletter/issue13_DROWN_attack.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Bulletproof TLS Newsletter [DROWN Vulnerability in OpenSSL Misses Most NGINX Users](https://www.nginx.com/blog/drown-vulnerability-cve-2016-0800-in-openssl-misses-most-nginx-users/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news SSLv2 has been turned off by default in NGINX releases since 2009. NGINX [Amazon Sold $2.4 Billion in Cloud Services Last Quarter](http://fortune.com/2016/01/28/amazon-cloud-logs-more-growth/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Fortune [A Tale of A DNS Exploit: CVE-2015-7547](https://blog.cloudflare.com/a-tale-of-a-dns-exploit-cve-2015-7547/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Marek Vavruša [[VIRTUAL COURSE\] OpsCast Classroom: Website Testing Optimization](http://pages.catchpoint.com/CLASSROOM-Testing-Optimization.html?LSD=SPON-WebOpsWeekly) tutorial Join the first ever Virtual Course for IT Ops to elevate your skills and site’s performance. Catchpointsponsored [Malice or Stupidity or Inattention? Using Code Reviews to Find Backdoors](http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/3/2/malice-or-stupidity-or-inattention-using-code-reviews-to-fin.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial High Scalability [Using a Serverless Architecture to deliver IRC Webhook Notifications](https://disjoint.ca/posts/2016/02/28/using-a-serverless-architecture-to-deliver-irc-webhook-notifications/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Marvin Pinto [Getting Started with Kubernetes and AWS](https://blog.redspread.com/2016/02/08/getting-started-with-kubernetes-and-aws/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Eric Koslow [Implementing HTTP/2 in Production Environments](https://blog.newrelic.com/2016/02/17/http2-production/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Clay Smith [curl vs Wget](https://daniel.haxx.se/docs/curl-vs-wget.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Daniel Stenberg [First Experiences Scaling A Meteor App](https://medium.com/@eliezer/first-experiences-scaling-a-meteor-app-14a48e62a4af?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Quite an in-depth look at what’s involved. Eliezer Steinbock [10 Things to Avoid in Docker Containers](http://developerblog.redhat.com/2016/02/24/10-things-to-avoid-in-docker-containers/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Red Hat Developer Blog [Grindr Settles into a Scalable Platform to Expand its Range of Services](http://thenewstack.io/grindr-settles-scalable-platform-expand-range-services/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion How a popular mobile social networking service is working its IT platform. The New Stack [Stack Overflow's Bosun Architecture](http://kbrandt.com/post/bosun_arch/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion [Bosun](http://bosun.org/) is an open source monitoring and alerting system. Kyle Brandt [cdnex: Prepend CDN URLs to Your HTML and CSS](https://github.com/jsonmaur/cdnex?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Can be integrated into any existing workflow. Jason Maurer [A Mock Server for APNs in Go](https://blog.clevertap.com/a-mock-server-for-apns-in-go/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Mocks the new HTTP/2 interface to Apple’s push gateway. Jude Pereira [nxweb: A Fast and Lightweight Web Server for Applications Written in C and Python](http://nxweb.org/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Yaroslav Stavnichiy [You’ve got Ops under control - what about the codebase?](https://www.reinteractive.net/service/code-care?sid=46) Neglected apps become harder to maintain and upgrade. Sign up to CodeCare and get fixed price ongoing upgrades and improvements for your Ruby on Rails apps. Reinteractivesponsored    [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/55) [See our archives](http://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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