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title: "Issue 58: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 58
published_at: "2016-03-23"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/58"
---

WebOps Weekly 58   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/58) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 58 — March 23, 2016     

[NGINX Gains UDP Load Balancing Support](https://www.nginx.com/blog/announcing-udp-load-balancing/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) NGINX has supported HTTP and TCP load balancing since the start, but now you can load balance DNS, syslog, RADIUS, and more through it. NGINX [Performance Bottlenecks Evident in the Top 50 Sites of Multiple Industries](http://www.webperformancetoday.com/2016/03/22/performance-bottlenecks-evident-in-the-top-50-sites-of-multiple-industries/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A variety of findings around Web performance matters on major sites that ‘threaten user retention and can have a huge impact on the bottom line’. Kent Alstad [test.bi: A Reserved Domain for Your Projects with SSL Support](https://github.com/Eun/test.bi?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Potentially useful for local development where SSL support is required (e.g. ServiceWorker development). The private key is included for signing. Tobias Salzmann [“Building our own status page was a great idea!” - no one ever](https://www.statuspage.io/?utm_source=webops_weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_term=webops_weekly_03_23&utm_campaign=newsletter_sponsorship) StatusPage.io is the best way to build a status page for your app or website. We help companies communicate and keep their customers and/or internal teams in the loop during downtime. StatusPage.​iosponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/ccf71dfe.png)](https://www.statuspage.io/?utm_source=webops_weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_term=webops_weekly_03_23&utm_campaign=newsletter_sponsorship) [Google Opens Access to Its Speech Recognition API](http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/23/google-opens-access-to-its-speech-recognition-api-going-head-to-head-with-nuance/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) The Google Cloud Speech API covers over 80 languages and will work with any application in real-time streaming or batch mode. Currently in ‘limited preview’ only though. TechCrunch [SSH2EC2: Connect to Instances using Tags and Metadata, Not Hostnames](http://awssystemadministration.com/ssh2ec2-connect-to-instances-using-tags-and-metadata-instead-of-hostnames/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools A wrapper around ssh which lets you use EC2 tags and metadata to select the destination hostname. AWS Sysadmin [Analyzing Encrypted HTTPS Traffic to Identify User OS, Browser, Apps](http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.04865?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Claims to be the first academic work to show how an external ‘attacker’ can identify significant facts about users over encrypted channels. Only 7 pages too. Muehlstein, Zion, et al.​ [s3git: git for Cloud Storage](https://github.com/s3git/s3git?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Create distributed, decentralized and versioned repositories that scale infinitely to 100s of millions of files and PBs of storage. s3git [Amazon Web Services' new Encryption SDK](http://blogs.aws.amazon.com/security/post/TxGBG3U5VUS2HY/How-to-Use-the-New-AWS-Encryption-SDK-to-Simplify-Data-Encryption-and-Improve-Ap?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Amazon attempts to take away the complexities faced by developers when implementing encryption with its new SDK that aims to make the process more transparent from a development POV. Amazon [Varnish Now Offers Cache Persistence for Large Datasets](http://thenewstack.io/varnish-overhauls-storage-engine-faster-video/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Varnish is an open source HTTP accelerator for large sites and a new module provides a way to cache large amounts of data that can be reloaded quickly in the event of a crash. The New Stack [TLS Certificate Optimization: Lazyloading for Legacy Browsers](https://blog.cloudflare.com/tls-certificate-optimization-technical-details/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) An in-depth, technical look at how Cloudflare serves up data to older browsers that would otherwise struggle to communicate with their end users’ sites. Patrick R.​ Donahue [GoDaddy Launches AWS-Style Servers and Apps](http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/21/godaddy-debuts-aws-style-servers-and-apps-to-build-test-and-scale-cloud-services/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Has introduced _Cloud Servers_ and _Cloud Applications_ to let companies build, test and scale cloud solutions on GoDaddy’s infrastructure. TechCrunch 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 [GitLab 8.6 released with Deploy to Kubernetes and Subscribe to Label](https://about.gitlab.com/2016/03/22/gitlab-8-6-released/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news tools GitLab [What Does Etsy's Architecture Look Like today?](http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/3/23/what-does-etsys-architecture-look-like-today.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news The popular marketplace is running a true LAMP stack. High Scalability [RFC 7763: The 'text/markdown' Media Type](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7763?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news IETF [Free Webinar: Running your Tests with Docker](http://resources.codeship.com/webinars/running-tests-with-docker?utm_course=webopsweeklysecondary) tutorial In this free webinar Codeship engineer Laura Frank will give an introduction on how to use Docker to run your tests more efficiently and will walk through testing best practices. Codeshipsponsored [Beyond Round Robin: Load Balancing for Latency](https://blog.buoyant.io/2016/03/16/beyond-round-robin-load-balancing-for-latency/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial A test of 3 different load balancing algorithms for their effects on latency. Steve Jenson [JSON-LD: Building Meaningful Data APIs](http://blog.codeship.com/json-ld-building-meaningful-data-apis/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial A look at ways to make JSON a more descriptive transport when used in APIs. Benjamin Young [Getting An SPA to Load The Fastest Possible Way (and How Webpack Can Help You)](http://rosenfeld.herokuapp.com/en/articles/2016-02-29-getting-an-spa-to-load-the-fastest-possible-way-and-how-webpack-can-help-you?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas [tcpdump is Amazing](http://jvns.ca/blog/2016/03/16/tcpdump-is-amazing/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Julia Evans [How Instagram Identified and Fixed Low-Hanging Web Performance Fruit](http://engineering.instagram.com/posts/193415561023919/performance--usage-at-Instagram?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Instagram [Web Page Performance Death by a Thousand Tiny Cuts](http://metroize.com/web-page-performance-death-by-a-thousand-tiny-cuts/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Often it’s many ‘small’ things that add up to big Web performance gains. Metroize [Does Running Java on Docker Containers Violate Agreements?](http://www.infoq.com/news/2016/03/docker-java?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion A dig into the licenses involved. InfoQ [Why Microservices? A Biased Summary of the Assets of Microservice Architectures](http://dev.otto.de/2016/03/20/why-microservices/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Guido Steinacker [4 Architecture Qualities that Make Apps Successful](http://www.pointsource.com/blog/4-architecture-qualities-that-make-modern-apps-successful?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Sean Kennedy [Scaling to Exabytes and Beyond at Dropbox](https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/03/magic-pocket-infrastructure/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Dropbox Tech Blog [Responsive Images in 30 Minutes or Less](https://www.imgix.com/?utm_source=webops-weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2016-03-23-webops-weekly) tools Imgix is a real-time image processing service and CDN. Our new libraries enable you to implement lightboxes and zoom viewers without having to create multiple copies of the image, while also delivering it at high quality and speed, to every device or browser. Imgixsponsored [varnish-wrapper: Wrap mitmproxy Around Varnish Cache](https://github.com/chair6/varnish-wrapper?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Why? So you can see how an HTTP cache or proxy modifies the traffic passing through it. Jamie Finnigan [Kubespray: Deploy A Kubernetes Cluster with Ansible](https://docs.kubespray.io/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools kubespray [cluster-iperf: Docker Image for Running iperf in Client or Server Mode](https://github.com/Markbnj/cluster-iperf?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Mark Betz [Match: Scalable Reverse Image Search built on Kubernetes and Elasticsearch](https://github.com/pavlovml/match?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Pavlov [regrid: A File Storage System for RethinkDB Inspired by GridFS](https://github.com/internalfx/regrid?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Bryan Morris    [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/58) [See our archives](http://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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