---
title: "Issue 59: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 59
published_at: "2016-03-30"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/59"
---

WebOps Weekly 59   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/59) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 59 — March 30, 2016     

[netdata: Open Source Real-Time Performance Monitoring](https://github.com/firehol/netdata?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Runs on Linux and enables real-time performance monitoring dashboards for things like CPU, memory and IO usage, processes, MySQL, Nginx, and more. FireHOL [AWS Networking, Environments and You](http://charity.wtf/2016/03/23/aws-networking-environments-and-you/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A seasoned Amazon Web Services user shares a wide variety of insights and best practices regarding management environments, network segmentation and security automation on AWS. Charity Majors [Book Review: Amazon Web Services in Action](https://serverlesscode.com/post/aws-in-action-andreas-and-michael-wittig/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news opinion Described as an ‘ambitious’ book that tries to cover everything you need to get running on AWS. I think we need more books like this on AWS. Ryan S.​ Brown [Free eBook: Running a Private Docker Registry on Amazon EC2](http://resources.codeship.com/ebooks/private-docker-registry-ec2?utm_source=webopsweeklyprimary) In this free Codeship eBook you will learn which AWS services are integrated with Docker. We’ll show you step-by-step how to use AWS for hosting your own registries. Codeshipsponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/da6e309d.png)](http://resources.codeship.com/ebooks/private-docker-registry-ec2?utm_source=webopsweeklyprimary) [(Abusing) Elasticsearch as a Framework](https://zignar.net//2016/03/18/abusing-elasticsearch-as-a-framework/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion “Most people who know Elasticsearch think of it as a search engine, and they’re probably correct. But we at Crate think about it a bit differently and use it as a framework.” Mathias Fussenegger [Say Hello to Docker for Mac](https://medium.com/@tiffanyfayj/say-hello-to-docker-for-mac-dec4a45b03d3?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news tools Run a single app and it just works while having the same feel as running Docker directly in Linux. Still in [beta](https://beta.docker.com/) behind a reg-wall though. Tiffany J [Google Stackdriver: Unified Monitoring and Logging for GCP and AWS](https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/03/Google-Stackdriver-integrated-monitoring-and-logging-for-hybrid-cloud.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news The first service to include rich dashboards, uptime monitoring, alerting, log analysis, tracing, error reporting and production debugging, across both GCP and AWS. Google [Embracing The Network](https://vimeo.com/148443331?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video The network is intrinsically unreliable. More so, the network is out of your control as a developer. Therefore, we must design systems which embrace unpredictability. _A 50 minute talk from Web Directions._ Patrick Hamann [Why You Should Use Clojure for Your Next Microservice](https://developer.atlassian.com/blog/2016/03/why-clojure/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Clojure is a modern Lisp for the JVM, and the JVM presents many advantages for microservice development. Leonardo Borges [Inline CSS at Khan Academy: Aphrodite](http://engineering.khanacademy.org/posts/aphrodite-inline-css.htm?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story A look at how Khan Academy has moved to inlining CSS in JavaScript components to improve load times, as well as a tool they’ve built to help. Khan Academy Engineering 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 [Kubernetes 1.2 Offers Rolling Updates, Persistent Volumes](http://thenewstack.io/kubernetes-1-2-offers-rolling-updates-persistent-volumes/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news The New Stack [NGINX 1.9.13 Released](https://marc.ttias.be/nginx-announce/2016-03/msg00000.php?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Notably, POST, LOCK and PATCH requests are no longer passed to the next server by default if a request has been sent to a backend already. Maxim Dounin [Introducing A New Web Performance Metric for Media Sites: Activity Impact Score](http://www.soasta.com/blog/introducing-a-new-web-performance-metric-for-media-sites-activity-impact-score/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Tammy Everts [Amazon Presents .AWS](http://nic.aws/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news No actual news yet, but it appears Amazon will be using it soon. Amazon [Tutorial: Build an Angular 2 app using auto-generated APIs](http://blog.dreamfactory.com/crafting-an-angular-2-application-using-auto-generated-apis?utm_source=webops_weekly&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=angular) tutorial New Angular 2 sample app for DreamFactory’s open source REST API platform. DreamFactorysponsored [Building Serverless Microservices with Zappa and Flask](https://gun.io/blog/serverless-microservices-with-zappa-and-flask/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial A look at writing and deploying serverless microservices from the Python ecosystem. Rich Jones [Avoiding Pitfalls with DNS and AWS Elastic Load Balancer](http://engineering.curalate.com/2016/03/25/elb-and-dns.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Clark Roberts [How We Implemented The Video Player in Mail.ru Cloud](http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/3/28/how-we-implemented-the-video-player-in-mailru-cloud.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial High Scalability [Once Again on TCP vs UDP](http://ithare.com/once-again-on-tcp-vs-udp/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial No Bugs Hare [PostgreSQL and Per-connection Write Consistency Settings](https://www.compose.io/articles/postgresql-and-per-connection-write-consistency-settings/?utm_source=cooper&utm_medium=webops&utm_term=postgres&utm_content=article&utm_campaign=newsletter) PostgreSQL has predictable defaults. This article examines the tradeoffs and discusses per-connection tunable write consistency over a cluster. Composesponsored [Application Architectures with Persistent Storage](http://firstclassthoughts.co.uk/Articles/Design/ApplicationArchitecturesWithPersistentStorage.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Summaries of 5 different approaches. Kasper B.​ Graversen [A Look Inside Etsy's Scale and Engineering Culture with Jon Cowie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vV4YiqKm1o&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video YouTube [Deploying a Private PaaS: The Good, the Meh, and the Aw Crap](http://tech.strofcon.org/2016/03/deploying-private-paas-good-meh-and-aw.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Cody Boggs [How to Read Web Performance Stats](http://www.soasta.com/blog/how-to-read-web-performance-stats/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion What does “making pages X seconds faster equals Y” actually mean? Buddy Brewer [Containers Are Not VMs](https://blog.docker.com/2016/03/containers-are-not-vms/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion “I can’t count the number of times I have heard Docker containers described as ‘lightweight VMs’,” says Docker’s Mike Coleman. Docker [Serverless On AWS: A Game Changer](https://read.acloud.guru/why-serverless-with-aws-is-a-game-changer-3cb37e25f638?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Sam Kroonenburg [New Progressive Web App Helps Flipkart Boost Conversions [PDF\]](https://developers.google.com/web/showcase/case-study/pdfs/flipkart.pdf?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Service Workers are credited for quicker load times over 2G networks, commonly used in Flipkart’s home market. Google [The FT Labs Web Performance Widget](http://labs.ft.com/2016/03/performance-widget/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools A look at how the Financial Times are using a Chrome extension to run synthetic tests on pages their developers visit so performance concerns are made more visible. FT Labs [Lwan: A High-Performance, Scalable Web Server](http://lwan.ws/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Dynamic content can be generated by code written in either C or Lua. Leandro Pereira    [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/59) [See our archives](http://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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