---
title: "Issue 60: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 60
published_at: "2016-04-06"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/60"
---

WebOps Weekly 60   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/60) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 60 — April 6, 2016     

[From Side Project to 250 Million Daily Requests](https://medium.com/get-put-post/from-side-project-to-250-million-daily-requests-909b9e373d94?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news The tale of how a Stack Overflow question helped IPInfo, a geolocated IP details API, take off. Gordon Wintrob [Azure Functions: An Event Driven, Compute-on-Demand Experience](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/functions/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Extends the existing Azure platform with capabilities to implement code triggered by events occurring both inside and outside of Azure. Essentially Azure’s _Lambda_equivalent. Microsoft [Now: The Fastest Way to Deploy A Node.js Service](https://zeit.co/now?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools A new service that looks a little like a ‘Heroku for Node’ on the surface, but which takes some interesting approaches to the task of rapidly deploying Node apps. Zeit [CFP for Barcelona Full Stack Fest 2016 has opened. Join us and inspire your peers!](https://2016.fullstackfest.com/call-for-papers?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A week-long full stack development conference with a focus on solving current problems with new & inspiring perspectives. Our Call For Papers is open with 16 speaker slots. Submit your talk before the 14th of May and join us in Barcelona. Full Stack Festsponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/69a9ff67.jpg)](https://2016.fullstackfest.com/call-for-papers?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) [imgix Page Weight Tool](https://pageweight.imgix.com/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools A simple tool that analyzes a Web page for its total weight, the ‘weight’ of all images, and what optimization could gain you in terms of a smaller size. Imgix [What Every Browser Knows About You](http://webkay.robinlinus.com/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools A demo of all the data your browser can figure out or provide about you — without asking you for any permission. Robin Linus [To Compress or Not to Compress, That was Uber's Question](http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/3/21/to-compress-or-not-to-compress-that-was-ubers-question.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Uber’s challenge: They store a lot of data. Typically 20K of JSON per trip. At Uber’s growth rate even saving several KB per trip would save a lot of space.. Todd Hoff [Optimize Web Performance Under Varying Network Conditions](https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/profile/network-performance/network-conditions?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Without affecting traffic to other tabs, you can evaluate your site’s performance using the Chrome DevTools network emulator. Meggin Kearney and Jonathan Garbee [Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP): Open or Closed?](https://opensource.com/life/16/4/accelerated-mobile-pages-amp-open-or-closed?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion As the amount of Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) content continues to grow, more questions are being asked about whether or not AMP benefits the open web, and whether AMP is a closed silo. Matthew Tift Jobs [Go make the world more secure](https://app.jobvite.com/j?cj=ocqS2fwg&s=WebOps_Newsletter) CrowdStrike is a security company focused on building the most advanced intelligence platform in the world. We use Go to help us get there, and are looking for a few good gophers to help us change the world. Interested? CrowdStrike In brief [CoreOS CTO: Containers Are the Next Linux Package Manager](http://www.linux.com/news/enterprise/clustering/893678-coreos-cto-containers-are-the-next-linux-package-manager?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Linux.​com [Web Performance Analytics Vendor Soasta Raises $30 Million](https://www.internetretailer.com/2016/03/24/web-performance-analytics-vendor-soasta-raises-30-million?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Tracy Maple [Google Reveals Own Security Regime Policy Trusts No Network, Anywhere, Ever](http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/06/googles_beyondcorp_security_policy/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Darren Pauli [Supplement Your Income Sharing Your AWS & Dev Knowledge](http://go2.pluralsight.com/C0001187) Teach & inspire learners worldwide. Grow establish your personal brand. Be an author. Make a difference. Pluralsightsponsored [Building a Dynamic DNS for Route 53 using CloudWatch Events and Lambda](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/building-a-dynamic-dns-for-route-53-using-cloudwatch-events-and-lambda/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Amazon Web Services [How to Achieve 100/100 with the Google Page Speed Test Tool](https://moz.com/blog/how-to-achieve-100100-with-the-google-page-speed-test-tool?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Quite a high-level, webmaster POV post. Felix Tarcomnicu [Top 10 Tenets of A System Administrator](https://github.com/Leo-G/DevopsWiki/wiki/Top-10-tenets-of-a-System-Administrator?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial An overview with some advice for sysadmins. Leo has also compiled a handy list with plenty of [helpful guides and tutorials](https://github.com/Leo-G/DevopsWiki). Leo G [Federated Clusters with Docker Swarm](https://medium.com/on-docker/federated-clusters-with-docker-swarm-dce5516ecc8d?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Federated clustering overview with a focus on Swarm. Includes architecture diagrams and tools for building an experiment in AWS. Jeff Nickoloff [How to Choose The Right DevOps Tools](http://blogs.atlassian.com/2016/03/how-to-choose-devops-tools/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion DevOps tools don’t magically make you “DevOps”. Rather, they support collaboration between Dev and Ops. Here’s what to look for. Sarah Zorah [Still Think You Don't Need HTTPS?](https://scotthelme.co.uk/still-think-you-dont-need-https/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion A look at the reasons why HTTPS is the only serious option nowadays, and some remaining myths. Scott Helme [AWS Lambda: A Few Years of Advancement and We're Back to Stored Procedures](http://it20.info/2016/04/aws-lambda-a-few-years-of-advancement-and-we-are-back-to-stored-procedures/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Massimo Re Ferre [Latency Numbers Everyone Should Know](http://softwareyoga.com/latency-numbers-everyone-should-know/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Deepak Karanth [The Trouble with Tor](https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-trouble-with-tor/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion CloudFlare [One Call to Rule Them All](http://blog.dreamfactory.com/working-with-virtually-related-data-0?utm_source=webops_weekly&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=onecall) tools DreamFactory's autogenerated REST APIs work across multiple databases on a multitude of servers. Free, open source platform. DreamFactorysponsored [Introducing doctl: A Command Line Interface to DigitalOcean](https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/introducing-doctl/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools DigitalOcean [Dockaless: Serverless Docker Functions](https://github.com/iopipe/dockaless?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Integrate Docker containers into a serverless platform via [IOpipe](https://github.com/iopipe/iopipe), a toolkit for event-driven, serverless apps. IOpipe [Vegeta: An HTTP Load Testing Tool](https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Now supports HTTP/2 too. Tomas Senart    [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/60) [See our archives](http://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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