---
title: "Issue 71: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 71
published_at: "2016-06-23"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/71"
---

WebOps Weekly 71   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/71) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 71 — June 23, 2016     

[Falco: An Open Source, Behavioral Security Monitoring Tool](https://sysdig.com/blog/sysdig-falco/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools A behavioral activity monitoring agent that comes with native support for containers. Its creators say it’s a “mix between snort, ossec and strace.” Henri Dubois-Ferriere [The Hidden Dividends of Microservices](http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2956643&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Tom Killalea looks at 8 benefits of microservices you need to be reaping, otherwise you might as well not bother with them. ACM [NGINX’s Amplify Monitoring Tool Now in Public Beta](https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/22/nginx-amplify/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Amplify provides an interface to analyze your NGINX-based app’s performance and security in a more direct way. TechCrunch [Announcing the Docker for Mac and Windows Public Beta](https://blog.docker.com/2016/06/docker-mac-windows-public-beta/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Docker for Mac and Windows is now public, along with a new 1.12 release candidate. Mano Marks [Ops Solutions for Rails Apps](https://www.reinteractive.net/service/ops-care?sid=71) Our custom-made Operations as a Service platform for Rails apps allows scheduled and automatic scaling of your production and staging environments so you don't pay for servers you don't need. Get OpsCare® and save. Reinteractivesponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/bf2de978.png)](https://www.reinteractive.net/service/ops-care?sid=71) [The Image Optimization Technology That Serves Millions of Requests Per Day](http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/6/15/the-image-optimization-technology-that-serves-millions-of-re.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story A look at the tools and technology behind the Kraken image optimization platform. High Scalability [Unikernels Will Create More Security Problems Than They Solve](http://thenewstack.io/unikernels-will-create-security-problems-solve/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion A very opinionated piece on “the most recent overhyped technology in search of a problem to solve.” Ouch. Randy Bias [An Update on Let's Encrypt's Progress Towards 100% HTTPS](https://letsencrypt.org/2016/06/22/https-progress-june-2016.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Let’s Encrypt has issued more than 5 million free certificates covering more than 7 million domains since its general launch in December. Let's Encrypt [A Look at Serverless Architectures](http://martinfowler.com/articles/serverless.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Serverless architectures replace individually-managed servers with a collection of third party services and FaaS (Functions as a Service). Mike Roberts [No WebSockets Over HTTP/2](https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/06/15/no-websockets-over-http2/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion _“There is no websockets for HTTP/2. By this, I mean that there’s no way to negotiate or upgrade a connection to websockets over HTTP/2 like there is for HTTP/1.1”_ Daniel Stenberg Jobs [DevOps Engineer (Boulder, CO)](http://goril.ly/28JFWxC) Gorilla Logic is seeking a DevOps Engineer for our client's engineering team. Join our diverse group and help build a high-quality scalable product that improves spirituality, wellness and changes lives. Gorilla Logic [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-june-22&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 [Introducing the Docker for AWS and Azure Beta](https://blog.docker.com/2016/06/azure-aws-beta/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Still in private beta but they aim to make Docker on AWS and Azure easier to use and deploy. Michael Friis [Microsoft Brings Container Innovation to the Enterprise at DockerCon 2016](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-brings-container-innovation-to-the-enterprise-at-dockercon-2016/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Mark Russinovich [Google Launches AMP Validator Web Tool](https://www.seroundtable.com/google-adds-amp-web-validator-tool-22278.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news tools Search Engine Roundtable [AMP Leads to Growth in Return Visitors for Washington Post](https://twitter.com/jeffjarvis/status/733405571584401409?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Jeff Jarvis on Twitter [[Whitepaper\] 4 Ways You’re Keeping Your End Users Waiting with Web App Latency](http://info.appneta.com/Web-App-Latency.html?Ref__c=20621) Discover what types of latency are the most noticeable to your users. [Download now](http://info.appneta.com/Web-App-Latency.html?Ref__c=20621) AppNeta APMsponsored [How Netflix Migrated Its Billing System to Be 100% AWS Cloud-Native](http://techblog.netflix.com/2016/06/netflix-billing-migration-to-aws.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story The Netflix Tech Blog [Using libcloud: A Unified API for Cloud Providers](https://www.scalescale.com/using-libcloud/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Esteban Borges [Using EC2 On-Demand with Jenkins](https://www.atlantbh.com/using-ec2-on-demand-with-jenkins/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Mirela Hadzic [One Command Static Website Setup on AWS S3](http://perfect-blog.jevsejev.io/2016/06/12/one-command-static-website-on-aws-s3-cloudfront-under-10-minutes/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial A guide to setup a static website on AWS S3 in under 10 minutes. Sergej Jevsejev [How to Get Free SSL For Any WordPress Website](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/06/free-ssl-for-any-wordpress-website/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Smashing Magazines [Monitoring and Tuning the Linux Networking Stack: Receiving Data](http://blog.packagecloud.io/eng/2016/06/22/monitoring-tuning-linux-networking-stack-receiving-data/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Very in-depth. PackageCloud [The Children's Illustrated Guide to Kubernetes](https://deis.com/blog/2016/kubernetes-illustrated-guide/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial If you need it boiled down very simply. Matt Butcher [My First 10 Minutes On a Server: A Primer for Securing Ubuntu](http://www.codelitt.com/blog/my-first-10-minutes-on-a-server-primer-for-securing-ubuntu/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Cody Littlewood [Zero Downtime Deployment with a Database](http://spring.io/blog/2016/05/31/zero-downtime-deployment-with-a-database?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Marcin Grzejszczak [Stop Using JWT for Sessions](http://cryto.net/~joepie91/blog/2016/06/13/stop-using-jwt-for-sessions/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Sven Slootweg [The Great DevOps Train Wreck is About to Crash into Your Data Center](http://thenewstack.io/great-devops-train-wreck-crash-data-center/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Sumeet Singh [DreamFactory 2.2 released, includes important API changes](http://blog.dreamfactory.com/dreamfactory-2-2-release?utm_source=webops_weekly&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=2-2) tools Our API automation platform keeps getting better with new streamlined commercial packages. DreamFactorysponsored [S3 Server: An AWS S3 Server Implementation in Node](https://s3.scality.com/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Scality [Building an APT (Package) Transport for S3](https://www.lucidchart.com/techblog/2016/06/13/apt-transport-for-s3/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools An approach for hosting apt repositories on S3. Lucidchart    [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/71) [See our archives](http://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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