--- title: "Issue 56: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news" publication: "StatusCode Weekly" issue: 56 published_at: "2016-03-10" canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/56" --- WebOps Weekly 56 . The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/56) [![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 56 — March 10, 2016 [Chaos Llama: A Tool for Resilience Testing of AWS Architectures](https://github.com/hassy/llama-cli?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Inspired by Netflix’s Chaos Monkey, it will randomly terminate or otherwise attempt to interfere with the operation of your EC2 instances and ECS tasks. hassy veldstra [400Gbps: A Winter of Whopping DDoS Attacks](https://blog.cloudflare.com/a-winter-of-400gbps-weekend-ddos-attacks/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A look at how Cloudflare has been absorbing and measuring some significant DDoS attacks over the past several weeks. This is a key topic to be aware of as it has affected many providers recently, such as Linode over the Christmas break. Cloudflare [Download free eBook: Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery with Docker](http://resources.codeship.com/ebooks/continuous-integration-continuous-delivery-with-docker?utm_source=cicddockerebook) Continuous Delivery is all about reducing risk and delivering value faster by producing reliable software in short iterations. In this free eBook we take a look at how to set up a Continuous Delivery Pipeline with Docker and containers. Codeshipsponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/258ec003.png)](http://resources.codeship.com/ebooks/continuous-integration-continuous-delivery-with-docker?utm_source=cicddockerebook) [Microservices Ending up as a Distributed Monolith](http://www.infoq.com/news/2016/02/services-distributed-monolith?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) At the recent Microservices Practitioner Summit Facebook engineer Ben Christensen talked about an increasingly common anti-pattern of coupling of distributed systems with binary dependencies. InfoQ [Serverless Slackbots Powered by AWS](http://eng.localytics.com/serverless-slackbots-powered-by-aws/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Two newly open-sourced tools to help you create code to handle custom Slack commands using AWS Lambda, AWS API Gateway and Serverless, a framework that uses both. Localytics [Microsoft Announces SQL Server for Linux](https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2016/03/07/announcing-sql-server-on-linux/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) The software giant takes another step towards Linux by announcing the availability of its flagship database server, SQL Server, on Linux in 2017. Microsoft [Learning to Use Google Analytics More Effectively at CodePen](https://css-tricks.com/learning-use-google-analytics-effectively-codepen/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion A look at how CodePen uses Google Analytics to collect custom data and do interesting things with it. Chris Coyier 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 [Researchers Achieve Fastest Ever Data Transmission at 1.125 Tbps](http://gizmodo.com/researchers-achieve-fastest-ever-data-transmission-at-b-1758452054?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Not ready for your own servers just yet. Gizmodo [Responsive Images in 30 Minutes or Less](https://www.imgix.com/?utm_source=webops-weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2016-03-09-webops-weekly) tools Imgix is a real-time image processing service and CDN. Our new libraries enable you to implement lightboxes and zoom viewers and deliver them at high speed to every device or browser. Imgixsponsored [The Micro Manual to Hosting a Static Website on AWS](http://micromanuals.xyz/static-sites.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news An e-book you can buy (cheap). MicroManuals [Scaleway C2's 'Insanely Affordable' x86-64 Servers](https://blog.scaleway.com/2016/03/08/c2-insanely-affordable-x64-servers/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news The [Hacker News discussion](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11251671) is worth a read for the potential performance pitfalls. Scaleway [t2.nano EC2 Instances Now Available in EU (Frankfurt) and Asia Pacific (Sydney)](http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/03/amazon-ec2-announces-availability-of-t2-nano-in-eu-frankfurt-and-asia-pacific-sydney-regions/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news It’s the smallest and cheapest Amazon EC2 instance type available. Amazon [How Heroku Simulates Third-Party Downtime](https://engineering.heroku.com/blogs/2016-03-01-simulate-downtime/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Heroku [Docker Launches a Tutum-based Container Hosting Service](http://thenewstack.io/docker-launches-container-hosting-service/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news The New Stack [A Deep Dive Into DNS Packet Sizes: Why Smaller Packet Sizes Keep The Internet Safe](https://blog.cloudflare.com/a-deep-dive-into-dns-packet-sizes-why-smaller-packet-sizes-keep-the-internet-safe/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Cloudflare [Make Docker Images Smaller with This Trick](http://www.wise.io/tech/make-docker-images-smaller-with-this-trick?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Joshua Bloom [Performance Tuning Apache Storm at Keen IO](http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/3/8/performance-tuning-apache-storm-at-keen-io.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial High Scalability [Working with HTTP2 on localhost with Caddy](http://tobias.is/blog/test-http2-localhost-caddy-ssl/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Tobias Baldauf [Let's Code a TCP/IP Stack, 1: Ethernet and ARP](http://www.saminiir.com/lets-code-tcp-ip-stack-1-ethernet-arp?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Sami Niiranen [How Powerful Are The Burstable EC2 t2 Instances?](https://medium.com/algotech-solutions/how-powerful-are-the-burstable-aws-t2-instances-ef2c5073c94a?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion AlgoTech Solutions [Docker Swarm Exceeds Kubernetes Performance at Scale](https://blog.docker.com/2016/03/swarmweek-docker-swarm-exceeds-kubernetes-scale/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Docker Blog [Using S3 as a Storage Back-End](http://tus.io/blog/2016/03/07/tus-s3-backend/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Marius Kleidl [Deploy databases in minutes on your own servers](https://enterprise.compose.io/?utm_source=cooper&utm_medium=webops&utm_campaign=enterprise-micro1) tools We've just launched the beta of Compose Enterprise, a new powerful option for using Compose which lets deploy production-ready databases with ease within your own cloud clusters. Composesponsored [WSO2 Unveils a Lightweight Java Framework for Building Microservices](http://thenewstack.io/middleware-provider-wso2-launches-lightweight-java-framework-microservices/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools news The New Stack [cors-container: A CORS Proxy in A Docker Container](https://github.com/imjacobclark/cors-container?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools For when you need to `Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *` Jacob Clark [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/56) [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