---
title: "Issue 7: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 7
published_at: "2015-03-26"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/7"
---

WebOps Weekly 7   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/7) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 7 — March 26, 2015     

[Test-Driving Web Server Configuration](https://gdstechnology.blog.gov.uk/2015/03/25/test-driving-web-server-configuration/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) The folks at the British Government Digital Service found it was time to start writing tests for their NGINX configuration. Here’s why and how. Gov.​UK [Vitess: Tools to Assist in Scaling MySQL Databases for the Web](http://vitess.io/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Vitess is a storage platform for scaling MySQL that combines important MySQL features with the scalability of a NoSQL database. Google uses it within YouTube’s infrastructure. Google [Hacker News Broke Our Site: How Nginx and PageSpeed Fixed The Problem](https://www.airport-parking-shop.co.uk/blog/hacker-news-broke-site-nginx-pagespeed-fixed-problem/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) After a surge of traffic from Hacker News brought things to a crash, a company rebuilt their stack with performance best practices in mind, now getting 94/100 on Google’s PageSpeed Insights. Here’s how. Airport Parking Shop [The first ops platform for developers](https://opbeat.com/?campaign=webopsweekly&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=ad&utm_campaign=webopsweekly100) When an error happens, Opbeat will show you the code that is breaking, who wrote it, and how it is affecting performance. Now available for iOS and Android, so you can do ops when you’re AFK. _WebOps weekly readers get $100 credit._ Opbeatsponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/906f6ee6.png)](https://opbeat.com/?campaign=webopsweekly&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=ad&utm_campaign=webopsweekly100) [AWS and NAT: How Private Subnets Can Affect Your App’s Performance](https://alanondevelopment.wordpress.com/2015/03/23/aws-and-nat-how-private-subnets-can-affect-your-apps-performance/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion A look at latency issues that can arise from operations performed on Web servers in private subnets on AWS. Alan Cox [Why Netflix Chose NGINX as the Heart of Its CDN](http://nginx.com/blog/why-netflix-chose-nginx-as-the-heart-of-its-cdn/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion NGINX and FreeBSD run on all of the delivery appliances within Netflix’s content delivery network. Tony Mauro [The User is Drunk: A Drunk User As A Service](http://theuserisdrunk.com/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) An interesting paid ‘service’ where a guy will get totally drunk and see if your site is still usable. The price keeps going up so he must be getting interest! Richard Littauer In brief [Google Warns of Unauthorized TLS Certificates Trusted by Almost All OSes](http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/03/google-warns-of-unauthorized-tls-certificates-trusted-by-almost-all-oses/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Ars Technica [Edge Conference: The Cutting Edge Web Tech Event (June 27; London, UK)](https://edgeconf.com/2015-london?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news EdgeConf [nginx-1.7.11 Released](http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-announce/2015/000153.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news nginx-announce [All Major Browsers Fall At Pwn2Own Day Two](https://threatpost.com/all-major-browsers-fall-at-pwn2own-day-2/111731?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Threatpost [New JavaScript Techniques for Rapid Page Loads](http://blog.chromium.org/2015/03/new-javascript-techniques-for-rapid.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Chrome is introducing two techniques to optimize JavaScript parsing and caching. Chromium Blog [Steve Souders Joins SpeedCurve](http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2015/03/23/joining-speedcurve/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Steve Souders [Dart for the Entire Web](http://news.dartlang.org/2015/03/dart-for-entire-web.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email#?) news The Dart project is officially dropping the idea of integrating a Dart VM into the browser and is focusing only on compiling to JavaScript. Dart Language Team [How To Set Up Django with Postgres, Nginx, and Gunicorn on CentOS 7](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-django-with-postgres-nginx-and-gunicorn-on-centos-7?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial DigitalOcean [Nginx Guide: Introduction](http://code.tutsplus.com/articles/nginx-guide-introduction--cms-21877?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Nginx is a popular, lightweight open-source HTTP and reverse proxy server. Nishant Modak kicks off a series for absolute beginners. Tuts+ [Docker, Rails, & Docker Compose Together in Your Development Workflow](http://blog.carbonfive.com/2015/03/17/docker-rails-docker-compose-together-in-your-development-workflow/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Andrew Hao [JSON in URLs](https://blogs.dropbox.com/developers/2015/03/json-in-urls/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Dropbox Developer Blog [Why Make Websites Accessible?](http://www.sitepoint.com/why-make-websites-accessible/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion SitePoint [5 Suggestions for Building an Infrastructure for Innovation](http://blog.codeship.com/five-suggestions-for-building-an-infrastructure-for-innovation/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Codeship [A Cookie Can Last 7,984 Years, According to New International Privacy Study](https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/news-and-events/news-and-blogs/2015/02/a-cookie-can-last-7984-years-according-to-new-study/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion ICO [How We Built analytics.usa.gov](https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/03/19/how-we-built-analytics-usa-gov/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) GSA.​gov [DNS Performance: Compare The Speed of Enterprise and Commercial DNS Services](http://www.dnsperf.com/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools DNSPerf [TLS Prober: A Tool to Fingerprint SSL/TLS Servers](https://github.com/WestpointLtd/tls_prober?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools A tool for identifying the implementation in use by SSL/TLS servers. Westpoint Ltd [VPSComp: Compare VPSes From Your Country Quickly](http://vpscomp.com/variants?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools VPSComp [Augmented Traffic Control: A Tool to Simulate Network Conditions](https://github.com/facebook/augmented-traffic-control?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Facebook [httpdiff: Perform The Same Request Against Two HTTP Servers and Diff The Results](https://github.com/jgrahamc/httpdiff?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools John Graham-Cumming [Harp: The Static Web Server with Built-in Preprocessing](http://harpjs.com/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Serves Jade, Markdown, EJS, CoffeeScript, Sass, LESS and Stylus as HTML, CSS & JavaScript with no configuration necessary. Brock Whitten    [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/7) [See our archives](http://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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