---
title: "Issue 61: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 61
published_at: "2016-04-13"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/61"
---

WebOps Weekly 61   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/61) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 61 — April 13, 2016     

[Creating a Heavy-Duty Balancer With Nginx and Lua](http://alexfernandez.github.io/2016/nginx-balancer.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story A tale of how a team of engineers migrated from an expensive Elastic Load Balancing setup serving peaks of up to 300K rps to using Nginx as a reverse proxy. Alex Fernandez [GitHub's CSP Journey: A Practical Look at Content Injection Mitigation](http://githubengineering.com/githubs-csp-journey/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Content Security Policy is an HTTP header that enables a site to use a declarative policy to set restrictions for web resources. Here, GitHub looks at how they prevent security issues using CSP. Patrick Toomey [Continuous Deployment at Instagram](http://engineering.instagram.com/posts/1125308487520335/continuous-deployment-at-instagram/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Instagram deploys their backend code 30-50 times a day ‘with no human involvement in most cases’. This article looks at how the system works smoothly. Michael Gorven [Fixed Price Ruby on Rails Ops? Seriously?](https://www.reinteractive.net/service/ops-care?sid=67) Yes! OpsCare® gives you 24/7 dedicated support for your app from less than $1 per hour. Take advantage of performance enhancing tools for your Rails app on one of the world's most robust and stable Operations as a Service platforms. Reinteractivesponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/0849bbdf.png)](https://www.reinteractive.net/service/ops-care?sid=67) [How Changing WebFonts Made Rubygems.org 10x Faster](https://www.nateberkopec.com/2015/11/30/how-changing-webfonts-made-rubygems-10x-faster.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A look at how the official Ruby language site was being held back performance-wise by its Web fonts. Nate Berkopec [Monitoring Microservices Architectures: Enterprise Best Practices](https://blog.risingstack.com/monitoring-microservices-architectures/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Insights on how lead engineers at IBM, Financial Times and Netflix think about the pain-points of app monitoring and what are their best practices for maintaining and developing microservices. Ferenc Hámori [F8 Reveals New Facebook Developer Tools and Services](https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2016/04/12/f8-2016-developer-roundup/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news A round-up of developer news from Facebook’s F8 2016, including the major announcement that anyone can now [develop bots for the Messenger platform.](https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2016/04/12/bots-for-messenger/) Facebook [Deploy Your Own REST API in 30 Mins Using mLabs and Heroku](http://www.sitepoint.com/deploy-rest-api-in-30-mins-mlabs-heroku/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Chris Chang demonstrates how to use the MEAN stack to rapidly create a RESTful API server and rich web application, which he then deploys to Heroku. Chris Chang [Here’s How Google Makes Sure It (Almost) Never Goes Down](http://www.wired.com/2016/04/google-ensures-services-almost-never-go/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) When was the last time you needed to Google something and Google wasn’t there? A new book peers into the Site Reliability Engineering methodology that keeps Google up. Wired [Containerized PHP Development Environments with Vagga](http://www.sitepoint.com/containerized-php-development-environments-with-vagga/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Parham dives into Vagga - a lightweight alternative to Docker useful for containerized development environments - and builds a PHP environment. Parham Doustdar Jobs [Operations Engineer (85k - 200k), Carpinteria, CA](http://procore.applytojob.com/apply/M9Ovi2/Operations-Engineer-Carpinteria-Ca?source=Hacker%20News) Code in oceanside Santa Barbara and build the software that builds the world! Procore needs an Operations Engineer to help lead our DevOps team. We believe in agile, test driven dev and emphasize collaboration and ownership. Procore Technologies [Want to spend less time job searching? Join Underdog.io in 1 min -- the best startups will email you.](https://underdog.io/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_campaign=homepage-2016-apr-13&utm_content=lesstime) If you’re accepted, startups will email you as soon as next Monday. You decide where to interview and where to work. Now open in SF, NYC, and remote. Join Underdog.io today! Underdog.​io In brief [Announcing NGINX Plus R9](https://www.nginx.com/blog/nginx-plus-r9-released/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Includes dynamic modules, UDP load balancing, and service discovery with DNS SRV records. NGINX [Ridiculously Fast API Authentication with Phoenix](https://blog.codeship.com/ridiculously-fast-api-authentication-with-phoenix/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial A look at how to create a simple token-based API authentication from scratch. Micah Woods [Troubleshooting Kubernetes: How Container Metadata Changes Your Point of View](https://sysdig.com/blog/container-metadata/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial How Kubernetes provides a new lens through which to monitor the performance of your system. Apurva Dave [Uploading, Resizing and Serving Images with Google Cloud Platform](https://medium.com/google-cloud/uploading-resizing-and-serving-images-with-google-cloud-platform-ca9631a2c556?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Panayiotis Lipiridis [The Comeback of Grids](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOPUrxxUBTE&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video At DevconTLV, Evgeny Zislis looked at how grids solve problems related to managing large fleets of containers. YouTube [Why Enterprises Want Containers Now — And Why You Should Too](http://thenewstack.io/enterprises-want-containers-now/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Seth Fox [Lessons From A Google App Engine SRE on Serving Over 100bn Requests Per Day](https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/04/lessons-from-a-Google-App-Engine-SRE-on-how-to-serve-over-100-billion-requests-per-day.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Brief interview with Chris Jones, a Site Reliability Engineer on Google App Engine. Jo Maitland [A Faster FT.com](http://engineroom.ft.com/2016/04/04/a-faster-ft-com/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion A look at trying to understand how much the speed of the FT website affected user engagement. Matt Chadburn and Gadi Lahav [The Trouble with CloudFlare](https://blog.torproject.org/blog/trouble-cloudflare?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Tor Project [Thoughts on Page Load Performance](https://ymichael.com/2016/04/10/thoughts-page-load-performance.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion How to make sense of the myriad of great info available for webdevs trying to profile/optimize their sites. Michael Yong [Find and Fix Production Errors Faster (and have fun doing it)](https://rollbar.com/features/?utm_source=webops_weekly&utm_medium=email-nl&utm_term=webops_weekly_4_13&utm_campaign=nl_sponsorship) tools Quickly pinpoint what’s broken and why. Get the context and insights to defeat _all_ application errors. Rollbarsponsored [Pilot53: Automatic DNS for EC2 Instances on Route53](https://github.com/jnardiello/Pilot53?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools An AWS Lambda function to automatically name EC2 instances on Route53. Jacopo Nardiello [14 Tools That Raise Web and App Performance](http://devops.com/2016/04/12/14-tools-raise-web-app-performance/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Asaf Yigal [DNS Check: Monitor, Share and Troubleshoot DNS Records](https://www.dnscheck.co/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools A paid service but with a free tier. dnscheck.​co [Habitus: A Build Flow Tool for Docker](http://www.habitus.io/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Cloud 66 [AWSnycast: Routing Daemon for AWS Route Tables, to Simulate An Anycast Like Service](https://github.com/bobtfish/AWSnycast?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Tomas Doran [Auto-generated APIs for any database](http://blog.dreamfactory.com/working-with-virtually-related-data-0?utm_source=webops_weekly&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=tryit) tools Powerful API automation for standardization, portability, and scale. Free dev environment for testing and rapid prototyping. 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