---
title: "Issue 66: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 66
published_at: "2016-05-19"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/66"
---

WebOps Weekly 66   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/66) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 66 — May 19, 2016     

[Traefik: An HTTP Reverse Proxy and Load Balancer for Microservices](https://traefik.io/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code It’s written in Go, supports numerous backends (Docker, Swarm, Kubernetes, etc.), supports HTTP/2 and WebSockets, and has an elegant, Angular-based Web UI. Emile Vauge [The Road to NoOps: Serverless Computing is Quickly Gaining Momentum](http://thenewstack.io/serverless-computing-growing-quickly/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion “‘Serverless’ in 2016 is increasingly looking like the early years of container adoption was in terms of the fervor and excitement surrounding the approach.” Mark Boyd [The Coach: A Modern Alternative to YSlow](https://www.maxcdn.com/blog/coach-yslow-alternative/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools _The Coach_ is a YSlow alternative for making Web pages faster. It supports HTTP/2, is an active project, and [is open source.](https://github.com/sitespeedio/coach) MaxCDN [Slow loading website? Speed it up to increase conversions.](https://kraken.io/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=webopsweekly-may2016) Nobody sticks around when a website takes ages to load. [Kraken.io](https://kraken.io/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=webopsweekly-may2016) can optimize and resize your images to speed up your website and increase your conversions. Kraken.​iosponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/e682ce5b.png)](https://kraken.io/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=webopsweekly-may2016) [Lever OS: A New 'Open-Source Serverless Platform'](https://blog.leveros.com/introducing-lever-os-d10a857f210e?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Lever OS lets you build and deploy microservice-oriented backends with no devops involvement. Vlad Alexandru Ionescu [Understanding UX and Hacking Perceived Performance](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ-q-7GO6N0&list=UU_DH6Z_K_3JRgOdDnwHLrLw&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video Web performance guru Tammy Everts shares some findings on _why_ we should make our pages faster, as well as some tips on creating the _illusion_ of such. _Note: Audio not great._ Tam Everts [Heroku Announces Free SSL Beta and Flexible Dyno Hours](https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2016/5/18/announcing_heroku_free_ssl_beta_and_flexible_dyno_hours?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Heroku has long been criticized for the cost of having an SSL endpoint (without using something like CloudFlare) so the new free SSL option (in beta) is very welcome. Heroku [AWS Unveils 'X1' Instances for EC2 with 2TB RAM](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/x1-instances-for-ec2-ready-for-your-memory-intensive-workloads/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news It doesn’t come cheap, but if having 64 cores and 2 terabytes of RAM at your disposal within a single instance sounds appealing, it’s now possible on AWS. Amazon ['Our Best Practices Are Killing Mobile Web Performance'](http://molily.de/mobile-web-performance/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion 'Web performance rules invented for desktop web access need to be revised for the mobile era', says Mathias Schäfer. Mathias Schäfer [Why Continuous Integration is Important](https://blog.codeship.com/continuous-integration-important/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion CI is a process we can use every moment of our work day to ensure that the software we’re building is improving and not decaying. Matthew Setter [Microservices in Production: 5 Challenges You Should Know](http://blog.takipi.com/5-ways-to-not-f-up-your-microservices-in-production/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial The dark side of microservices: You can’t just focus on the good parts. This post goes through the main problems they can cause, and how to avoid them. Alex Zhitnitsky Jobs [AWS Video Training Author at Pluralsight (Freelance, Part-time)](https://www.pluralsight.com/teach?cid=7011A000001QG6lQAG) Create and publish AWS training videos on Pluralsight.com. Work from anywhere, set your own schedule, reach a global audience. Cash in on your teaching skills by sharing your knowledge and helping others learn. PLURALSIGHT [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 [Google's Firebase Expands to Become A Unified App Platform](https://firebase.googleblog.com/2016/05/firebase-expands-to-become-unified-app-platform.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Google [CloudFlare Open Sources Its NGINX HTTP/2 + SPDY Code](https://blog.cloudflare.com/open-sourcing-our-nginx-http-2-spdy-code/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news tools Allows you to support HTTP/2 and SPDY simultaneously, something standard NGINX doesn’t support. CloudFlare [F5 Networks Fuses Node.js with Load Balancing for Workflow Orchestration](http://thenewstack.io/f5-networks-fuses-node-js-load-balancing-workflow-orchestration/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Scott M.​ Fulton III [The Day Google Chrome Disables HTTP/2 for Nearly Everyone](https://ma.ttias.be/day-google-chrome-disabled-http2-nearly-everyone-may-15th-2016/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news May 31st, 2016. The Chromium project will switch the negotiation protocol by which it decides whether to use HTTP/1.1 or the newer HTTP/2. Mattias Geniar [The Sleepy User Agent](https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-sleepy-user-agent/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story A look at an interesting case of User Agent strings being used as a SQL injection vector on Web apps. John Graham-Cumming [How Docker Is Changing The Way Songkick Develops and Ships Apps](https://devblog.songkick.com/2016/05/17/how-docker-is-changing-the-way-we-develop-test-ship-apps-at-songkick/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Paul Springett [Learn Docker and Containers in an Interactive Browser-Based Lab](https://katacoda.com/courses/docker?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Understand real world patterns and approaches in a live environment without any downloads or configuration. Katacoda [Distributed Tracing for Polyglot Microservices](https://blog.buoyant.io/2016/05/17/distributed-tracing-for-polyglot-microservices/index.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Kevin Lingerfelt [An Introduction to Microservices](https://medium.com/@sanchit.gera/an-introduction-to-microservices-2705e7758f9?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Sanchit Gera [The State of Web Security](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfvkC-L69xc&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video RailsConf 2016 [DevOps is Undead](https://blog.opsee.com/devops-is-undead-ad128c543165?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Cliff Moon [From Node.js to Go (for WebSocket Servers)](http://blog.scaledrone.com/posts/nodejs-to-go?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion “we got more than we asked for as Go servers use a third of the memory that our Node.js servers did” ScaleDrone [Stop building APIs](https://www.dreamfactory.com/signup/dont-build-rest-apis?utm_source=webops_weekly&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=dont) tools DreamFactory auto-generates APIs from nearly any database, instantly. Out of the box support for V8js, Node.js, PHP, and Python for custom scripting. DreamFactorysponsored [AWS Fuzzy Finder: SSH Into EC2 Instances using Fuzzy Search](https://github.com/pmazurek/aws-fuzzy-finder?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Piotr Mazurek [Advanced Pinging with httping, dnsping, and smtpping](http://blog.webernetz.net/2016/05/10/advanced-ping-httping-dnsping-smtpping/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Johannes Weber [PerfCascade: SVG based HAR Waterfall Viewer](http://micmro.github.io/PerfCascade/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Michael Mrowetz [mtr.guru: Web-Based Traceroute from 7 Remote Locations](http://mtr.guru/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools WDT [5 Tools to Help in Developing and Testing Web APIs](http://www.vinta.com.br/blog/2016/5-tools-to-help-developing-and-testing-apis.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Filipe Ximenes [Certbot: Automatically Enable HTTPS On Your Site](https://certbot.eff.org/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Previously known as the official Let’s Encrypt client, Certbot is an easy-to-use automatic client that fetches and deploys free SSL/TLS certificates for your web server. EFF [Script to Build A Docker Image, Push to AWS EC2 Container Registry, Then Deploy to Elastic Beanstalk](https://gist.github.com/yefim/93fb5aa3291b3843353794127804976f?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Geoffrey Yefim Vedernikoff [NVIDIA Docker: Build and Run Docker Containers Leveraging NVIDIA GPUs](https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-docker?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code NVIDIA Corporation    [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/66) [See our archives](http://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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