---
title: "Issue 62: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 62
published_at: "2016-04-20"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/62"
---

WebOps Weekly 62   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/62) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 62 — April 20, 2016     

[How Twitter Handles 3,000 Images Per Second](http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/4/20/how-twitter-handles-3000-images-per-second.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Twitter is handling 200GB of images being uploaded every second. Here’s a brief look at how they handle it, and how it used to work back in 2012. High Scalability [An 8 Minute Tour of WebPageTest](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOynMwTyRgQ&index=1&list=PLNYkxOF6rcIB3ci6nwNyLYNU6RDOU3YyL&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video If you’re not yet using WebPageTest to run performance tests on your Web pages, this short, well produced video by Addy Osmani should convince you to give it a go. YouTube [Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users](http://www.wired.com/2015/09/whatsapp-serves-900-million-users-50-engineers?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story One of the (many) intriguing parts of the WhatsApp story is that it has achieved such enormous scale with such a tiny team. Cade Metz [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/ddf0b8cf.png)](http://resources.codeship.com/ebooks/private-docker-registry-ec2?utm_source=webopsweeklyprimary) [Four Companies Setting the Stage for Programmable Infrastructure](http://thenewstack.io/new-stack-makers-programmable-infrastructure-intel-cloud/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion ‘Programmable infrastructure’ is an emerging method in which the practices and tools of DevOps are being extended into managing system operations as well. The New Stack [How To Deploy a Go Web Application with Docker](https://semaphoreci.com/community/tutorials/how-to-deploy-a-go-web-application-with-docker?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial A very thorough guide to how Docker can improve the way you build, test, and deploy Go webapps. Kulshekhar Kabra [Why You Should Stop Installing Your WebDev Environment Locally](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/04/stop-installing-your-webdev-environment-locally-with-docker/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial A perfect practical introduction to Docker for Web developers who’ve not yet used it in any capacity. Daniel Demmel [The Web is DOOM](https://mobiforge.com/research-analysis/the-web-is-doom?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion The average Web page weight now equals that of the original DOOM game install from the 90s. Ronan Cremin [An Introduction to Serverless Architecture](https://blog.snap-ci.com/blog/2016/04/19/serverless-architecture/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion A look at how and why teams are looking at ways to weave applications together out of ephemeral application components running dynamically in the cloud. Badrinath Janakiraman [Azure Container Service Now Generally Available](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-container-service-is-now-generally-available/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Microsoft’s container scheduling and orchestration solution, Azure Container Service, is now generally available and is ‘built on 100% open source software’. Microsoft [Building Enterprise Level Apps on AWS Lambda with the DEEP Framework](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/building-enterprise-level-web-applications-on-aws-lambda-with-deep/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial DEEP is a full-stack web framework for building cloud-native applications using a microservice architecture. Amazon [The Curious Case of Slow Downloads](https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-curious-case-of-slow-downloads/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story A technical look at an unusual issue that was causing CloudFlare downloads to crawl for certain users. One for the TCP and networking fans. CloudFlare In brief [[Whitepaper\] 6 Pitfalls of Microservices Architectures & How to Mitigate Them in Your Applications](http://info.appneta.com/six-pitfalls-microservices-architectures.html?Ref__c=20600) tutorial Help your team alleviate common issues with microservices architectures early in development. [Download now.](http://info.appneta.com/six-pitfalls-microservices-architectures.html?Ref__c=20600) AppNeta APMsponsored [ServerlessConf: A Conference for Lambda / Serverless Architectures](http://serverlessconf.io/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Taking place May 26-27 in New York City. A wide range of knowledgeable speakers. Serverlessconf [Google CDN Beta Is Here... and It’s Already One of The Fastest CDNs Out There](http://blog.speedchecker.xyz/2016/04/18/google-cdn-beta-is-here-and-it-brings-more-than-meets-the-eye/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news opinion Cristián Varas [Autodesk is Forging Ahead with Mesos, Containers and DC/OS](http://cloudengineering.autodesk.com/blog/2016/04/autodesk-is-forging-ahead-with-dcos.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Autodesk credits DC/OS with reducing its AWS instance usage by 66%. Autodesk [Detecting The Use of 'curl | bash' Server Side](https://www.idontplaydarts.com/2016/04/detecting-curl-pipe-bash-server-side/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial An interesting experiment to detect that a script is being piped to bash from the server-end. Application Security [Building Hypermedia APIs with Apache CouchDB](https://blog.codeship.com/hypermedia-apis-apache-couchdb/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Benjamin Young [How to Deploy Secure, Auditable, and Reproducible Kubernetes Clusters on AWS](http://blog.kubernetes.io/2016/04/kubernetes-on-aws_15.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Kubernetes [How to Build Quality Into Your Software Development Workflow](http://tech.shutterstock.com/2016/04/11/how-to-build-quality-into-your-software-development-workflow/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Shutterstock Tech [Elixir and Phoenix: The Future of Web APIs and Apps?](http://blog.carbonfive.com/2016/04/19/elixir-and-phoenix-the-future-of-web-apis-and-apps/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Christian Nelson [Walmart Labs CTO: How OpenStack Can Prevent Cloud Lock-in](http://thenewstack.io/walmart-labs-cto-openstack-can-prevent-cloud-lock/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Joab Jackson [The Challenges of Micro-Service Deployments](http://techtraits.com/microservice.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Usman Ismail [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. DreamFactorysponsored [Switch: Write Apache and NGINX Confs in JSON for Easier Switching](https://github.com/luke-j/switch?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Luke J [DC/OS: The Incredible Scalable Container Platform](http://www.10thmagnitude.com/tech-blog/DCOS-The-Incredible-Scalable-Container?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Ryan Lee [Wangle: An Asynchronous C++ Networking and RPC Library](https://code.facebook.com/posts/215466732167400/wangle-an-asynchronous-c-networking-and-rpc-library/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Facebook has unveiled a library for building protocols, servers, and clients in an asynchronous and composable manner. Facebook Code [AWS Device Farm: Remote Access to Devices for Interactive Testing](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-device-farm-update-remote-access-to-devices-for-interactive-testing/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Amazon [Microserver: Java Native, Zero Config, Battle Hardened REST Microservices Library](https://github.com/aol/micro-server?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code AOL [Minuteman: A Distributed, Highly Available Load Balancer](https://github.com/dcos/minuteman?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Written in Erlang. DC/OS [Gimel: Run Your Own A/B Testing Backend using AWS Lambda and Redis HyperLogLog](https://github.com/Alephbet/gimel?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Alephbet    [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/62) [See our archives](http://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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