---
title: "Issue 64: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 64
published_at: "2016-05-04"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/64"
---

WebOps Weekly 64   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/64) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 64 — May 4, 2016     

[How Stack Overflow Does Deployment - 2016 Edition](http://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/05/03/stack-overflow-how-we-do-deployment-2016-edition/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) The latest in a line of great posts digging into the processes, technologies and tools behind deploying Stack Overflow (the programmers’ Q+A site). Nick Craver [How HTTP/2 Will Speed Up the Web](https://kinsta.com/learn/what-is-http2/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A guide explaining HTTP/2 from the basics up - this could be a handy high level resource to share with others within your organization. Kinsta [Learn OAuth2 By Playing Zork](https://github.com/dogeared/OZorkAuth?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code An interesting attempt at providing a learning experience for picking up OAuth2 via playing a classic text adventure game, Zork. Micah Silverman [Download free eBook: Running a MEAN Web Application in Docker Containers on AWS](http://resources.codeship.com/ebooks/running-mean-web-apps-in-docker-containers-on-aws?utm_source=webopsweeklyprimary) This free Codeship eBook will teach you how to install and run a web application on the MEAN stack and how to host this app in Docker containers on AWS. Codeshipsponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/cff54c0a.png)](http://resources.codeship.com/ebooks/running-mean-web-apps-in-docker-containers-on-aws?utm_source=webopsweeklyprimary) [Book: 'Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems'](http://www.amazon.com/Site-Reliability-Engineering-Production-Systems/dp/149192912X?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news A collection of essays and articles brought together by key members of Google’s Site Reliability Team. Amazon [DevOps Gold Nuggets: Scaling Down Gracefully with AWS Lambda and HAProxy](https://www.contentful.com/blog/2016/04/27/aws-lambda-haproxy-scaling-down/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial An unconventional use of AWS Lambda and HAProxy to scale down infrastructure requirements on the fly without affecting existing users. Anthony Stanton [Slacker: Fast Distribution with Lazy Docker Containers](https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/05/02/slacker-fast-distribution-with-lazy-docker-containers/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) An introduction to a paper analyzing what happens when you ‘docker run’ a container image and a look at ‘Slacker’, a Docker storage driver optimized for fast startup. The Morning Paper [Container-Ready Rails 5](https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2016/5/2/container_ready_rails_5?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news “Rails 5 will be the easiest release ever to get running on Heroku,” says Richard Schneeman, before showing off how it’ll take just five lines at the command prompt. But how does it work? Heroku [From Application Metrics to Customer Experience Metrics](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai-6qwT6ES8&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video An interesting look at how a major train ticket company in the UK uses dashboards and metrics to improve customer experience. YouTube Jobs [Ruby Backend developer (Gothenburg, Sweden)](https://football-addicts.workable.com/jobs/183178) Football Addicts, creators of Forza Football, are looking for Ruby developers who are dedicated to building great mobile apps for football fans all over the world. Come join our small team in Gothenburg, Sweden. Football Addicts [The top VC-backed startups use Underdog.io to hire engineers. Join in 60 seconds.](https://underdog.io/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_campaign=homepage-2016-may-4&utm_content=hirethebest) 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 [CloudFlare Announces Support for HTTP/2 Server Push](https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-support-for-http-2-server-push-2/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news CloudFlare boasts that ‘more than 70% of sites that use HTTP/2 are served via CloudFlare.’ CloudFlare [Book: 'Microservices for Java Architects'](http://www.derekashmore.com/2016/04/microservices-for-java-architects-has.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Derek C.​ Ashmore [Papertrail: Frustration-free log management. Get started in seconds.](https://papertrailapp.com/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=fun-ish&utm_campaign=webops) tools A hosted log management service that lets you aggregate, tail, search, and react to log messages in a jiffy. Enjoy Papertrail’s free plan - no credit card required. Papertrailsponsored [Reducing JPEG File Sizes for the Web](https://medium.com/@duhroach/reducing-jpg-file-size-e5b27df3257c?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Colt McAnlis [Improving Angular Performance with 1 Line of Code](https://medium.com/@hackupstate/improving-angular-performance-with-1-line-of-code-a1fb814a6476?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Hack Upstate [Deploying a Static Site with Cron and Git](http://zellwk.com/blog/deploy-static-site/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Zell Liew [Infrastructure As Code: Automating AWS EC2 VMs with SaltStack](https://medium.com/@eon01/automating-aws-infrastructure-using-saltstack-2b40aeadc7a9?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Aymen El Amri [Using NGINX on Heroku to Serve Single Page Apps and Avoid CORS](https://m.alphasights.com/using-nginx-on-heroku-to-serve-single-page-apps-and-avoid-cors-5d013b171a45?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Damon Aw [Codeless API Reshaping with AWS API Gateway](https://medium.com/appaloosa-store-engineering/codeless-api-reshaping-with-aws-api-gateway-8e700e331922?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Appaloosa Store [Name Calling: A Look at Server Naming Conventions](https://www.revapm.com/2016/04/name-calling/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Jon Bosanac [Why Redis Beats Memcached for Caching](http://www.infoworld.com/article/3063161/application-development/why-redis-beats-memcached-for-caching.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Itamar Haber [The Seven Biggest Challenges of Deployment to ECS](https://convox.com/blog/ecs-challenges/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Noah Zoschke [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 [handy-nginx-includes: 'Best Practice' NGINX Configuration Includes](https://github.com/timgws/handy-nginx-includes?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Tim Groeneveld [uvloop: Blazing Fast Async Python Networking Framework](http://magic.io/blog/uvloop-blazing-fast-python-networking/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Yury Selivanov    [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/64) [See our archives](http://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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