---
title: "Issue 65: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 65
published_at: "2016-05-11"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/65"
---

WebOps Weekly 65   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/65) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 65 — May 11, 2016     

[Twitter Releases A High Performance Replicated Log Service](https://github.com/twitter/distributedlog?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Built in Java, DistributedLog is a high-perf, replicated log service, offering durability, replication and strong consistency as essentials for building reliable distributed systems. Twitter, Inc.​ [Redis 3.2.0 Released: Lots of New Features](http://antirez.com/news/104?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Redis, an in-memory, high performance ‘data structure server’, is a key piece of many apps now. 3.2 introduces a new ‘GEO’ API for indexing lat/long points, a BITFIELD command, and more. Salvatore Sanfilippo [HTTP/2 is Web Performance Candy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W-UdX4Yk94&index=13&list=PLndbWGuLoHebKI8krCzJU88Rf3TwhNZvH&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video An introduction to the new HTTP/2 protocol and how it changes web performance best practices. Clay Smith [No Time to Do Those Small but Critical Updates?](https://www.reinteractive.net/service/code-care?sid=68) If you're struggling to find time, budget or resources to improve your Rails app, there is a fixed price solution for ongoing upgrades and improvements with CodeCare®. Reinteractivesponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/c1c3c2be.png)](https://www.reinteractive.net/service/code-care?sid=68) [ImageTragick: Major ImageMagick Vulnerabilities](https://imagetragick.com/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news ImageMagick is a heavily used image manipulation library and some major vulnerabilities have been found in it. CloudFlare has [a write up of the payloads being used](https://blog.cloudflare.com/inside-imagetragick-the-real-payloads-being-used-to-hack-websites-2/) to hack sites. ImageTragick [Rack: Open-Source PaaS on AWS](https://github.com/convox/rack?utm_term=weekly&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Rack provides a simple developer-focused API that lets you easily build, deploy, scale and manage apps on private infrastructure. convox [lambda-comments: Use AWS Lambda to Host Blog Comments](https://jimpick.com/2016/05/05/introducing-lambda-comments/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools An interesting approach that means you still keep full control over your comments section, but keeps it off of your main site. Jim Pick [My URL Isn't Your URL](https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/05/11/my-url-isnt-your-url/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion The creator of cURL reflects on the definition of a ‘URL’ and how it varies: _“The WHATWG view of a URL is not widely adopted outside of browsers.”_ Daniel Stenberg [DevOps 2.0: User-Centered Deployments?](http://blog.launchdarkly.com/devops2/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion A look at decoupling feature rollout from code deployment and the rise of user-centered deployments. Justin Baker Jobs [Development Platform Engineer at FreeAgent (Edinburgh, Remote UK)](http://www.freeagent.com/company/careers/senior-software-engineer-development-platform/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) FreeAgent is changing the way freelancers and micro-businesses manage their company finances. Help us build our data platform that provides our business with insight into the behaviour of our customers. FreeAgent [Site Reliability Engineer (85k - 200k), Carpinteria, CA](http://grnh.se/6xivna) Code in oceanside Santa Barbara and build the software that builds the world. Procore needs an Site Reliability Engineer to help lead our DevOps team. We believe in agile, test driven dev and emphasize collaboration and ownership. Procore Technologies In brief [Docker Launches a Vulnerability Scanner for Containers](http://thenewstack.io/docker-launches-vulnerability-scanner-containers/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news tools The New Stack [CloudFlare Rolls out WebSockets Support for All Users](https://blog.cloudflare.com/everybody-gets-websockets/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news CloudFlare [Server-side scripting with Node.js and DreamFactory](https://www.dreamfactory.com/signup/dont-build-rest-apis?utm_source=webops_weekly&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=node) tutorial DreamFactory auto-generates APIs from nearly any database. This tutorial explains how to set up a Node.js integration using the new features of v2.1.2. DreamFactorysponsored [From SQL to Microservices: Integrating AWS Lambda with Relational Databases](http://blogs.aws.amazon.com/bigdata/post/Tx3IRFXZW1YRIVW/From-SQL-to-Microservices-Integrating-AWS-Lambda-with-Relational-Databases?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Amazon [Get Started with rkt Containers in 3 Minutes](https://coreos.com/blog/getting-started-with-rkt-1.0.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial CoreOS [Getting Started with LXC On A Scaleway Cloud Server](https://savjee.be/2016/05/Getting-started-with-LXC-on-a-Scaleway-cloud-server/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial This is a great, cheap way to get playing with Linux Containers. Xavier Decuyper [Real World Microservices: When Services Stop Playing Well and Start Getting Real](https://blog.buoyant.io/2016/05/04/real-world-microservices-when-services-stop-playing-well-and-start-getting-real/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Insights from an ex-Twitter infrastructure engineer and a look at [linkerd](https://linkerd.io/), a proxy for cross-service communication. Oliver Gould [Free eBook: Automate your Development Workflow with Docker](http://resources.codeship.com/ebooks/automate-development-workflow-with-docker?utm_source=webopsweeklysecondary) tutorial In this free Codeship eBook you will learn how to use Docker to solve the problems of inconsistent environments on varying deployment targets and how to build an app to run inside an isolated Docker Container. Codeshipsponsored [Introducing TAuth: Why OAuth 2.0 Is Bad for Banking APIs and How We're Fixing It](https://blog.teller.io/2016/04/26/tauth.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Teller [8 Container Orchestration Tools to Know](https://www.linux.com/news/8-open-source-container-orchestration-tools-know?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Linux.​com [smlr: Re-Encode JPEG Images with No Perceivable Quality Loss](https://github.com/jasonmoo/smlr?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Jason Mooberry [TCPTuner: Congestion Control Your Way](http://arxiv.org/abs/1605.01987?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools An academic paper about a Linux kernel module that allows real-time modification of congestion control params. [Source here.](https://github.com/Gasparila/TCPTuner) Miller and Hsiao [htop: An Interactive Process Viewer for Unix](http://hisham.hm/htop/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Hisham Muhammad [Supergiant: Open-Source Datacenter Total Control System](https://supergiant.io/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Run dockerized apps and manage hardware like one giant, efficient computer. Supergiant.​io [10 DIY Development Boards for IoT Prototyping](http://thenewstack.io/10-diy-development-boards-iot-prototyping/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools The New Stack    [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/65) [See our archives](http://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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