---
title: "Issue 72: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 72
published_at: "2016-06-29"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/72"
---

WebOps Weekly 72   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/72) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 72 — June 29, 2016     

[A Guide to High Performance Browser Networking](https://hpbn.co/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial A free-to-read book on what every web developer should know about mobile networks, protocols, and APIs provided by browsers to deliver the best user experience. Ilya Grigorik [How Facebook Live Streams to 800,000 Simultaneous Viewers](http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/6/27/how-facebook-live-streams-to-800000-simultaneous-viewers.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial A 45 minute video of two people exploding a watermelon peaked at over 800,000 simultaneous viewers, racking up over 300,000 comments. How does Facebook make this work in a stable fashion? High Scalability [Scaling and Securing The Dropbox API](https://medium.com/get-put-post/scaling-and-securing-the-dropbox-api-974daa4e96be?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story An interview with Leah Culver, Developer Advocate at Dropbox, and Chris Varenhorst, an early author of the Dropbox API covering lessons learned from launching, growing, and securing the Dropbox API. Gordon Wintrob [Free eBook: Understanding the Docker Ecosystem](http://resources.codeship.com/ebooks/private-docker-registry-ec2?utm_source=webopsweeklyprimary) In this free eBook, we introduce the Docker Hub, Docker Engine, Kitematic, Docker Machine, Docker Swarm, Docker Compose, Docker Cloud, and Data Center. Learn what they are and how they work. Codeshipsponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/12d3ceb4.png)](http://resources.codeship.com/ebooks/private-docker-registry-ec2?utm_source=webopsweeklyprimary) [AWS Introduces Worldwide SMS Messaging Service](https://mobile.awsblog.com/post/TxSP0HUNM8FQ1Y/Introducing-Worldwide-SMS-Messaging?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Amazon has introduced a new worldwide SMS messaging service based off of SNS. Any mobile number in over 200 countries can now be messaged directly. Amazon [5 Minutes Dabbling with Docker Distributed Application Bundles (DAB)](https://medium.com/@LachlanEvenson/5-minutes-dabbling-with-docker-distributed-application-bundles-dab-60f2dca3829?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video Distributed Application Bundles (DAB) is an experimental file format for bundling up the artifacts required to ship and deploy multi-container apps. Lachlan Evenson [Docker's Plan to Dominate the Enterprise Data Center](http://thenewstack.io/dockers-plan-dominate-enterprise-data-center/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Details from DockerCon 2016 on Docker’s plan to make containers the basic building block of the enterprise data center. The New Stack [Improved Font Loading in WebKit](https://webkit.org/blog/6643/improved-font-loading/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news “Many web fonts are quite large, causing a long delay until the browser can use them. WebKit has mitigated this.” Myles Maxfield [Everything You Could Want to Know About The Referer Header](https://blog.fastmail.com/2016/06/20/everything-you-could-ever-want-to-know-and-more-about-controlling-the-referer-header/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial What is the Referer header and how can you control its presence (or lack thereof)? A handy resource for security-minded Web developers. Neil Jenkins [NGINX as a Reverse Proxy for Docker Swarm Clusters](https://blog.codeship.com/nginx-reverse-proxy-docker-swarm-clusters/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial How to use NGINX as a reverse proxy for load-balancing containerized HTTP apps running in a Swarm cluster. Lorenzo Fontana [Building Serverless Apps with Webtask.io](https://auth0.com/blog/2016/06/28/building-serverless-apps-with-webtask/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Webtask is Function-as-a-Service platform for building serverless apps. Learn how to build applications without worrying about servers, and common use-cases where serverless shines. Tomasz Janczuk Jobs [Apply to 100 top tech companies with 1 application](http://www.indeed.com/prime?kw=webopsweekly&sid=xp_cooperpress_job) Indeed Prime connects top tech talent with top tech companies in the US. Companies compete to hire developers on Indeed Prime. 100% free for job seekers. Land a job and get $5k from Indeed Prime. Indeed Prime In brief [AWS Opens New Asia Pacific Reigion in Mumbai, India](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-open-aws-asia-pacific-mumbai-region/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Amazon [Amazon Elastic File System – Production-Ready in 3 Regions](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-elastic-file-system-production-ready-in-three-regions/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news EFS lets you create POSIX-compliant file systems and attach them to one or more of your EC2 instances via NFS. Amazon [Deis Workflow, the Open Source, Kubernetes-Native PaaS, is now officially GA](https://deis.com/blog/2016/workflow-stable/) news Whether you’re completely new to Kubernetes, or already an expert, Deis Workflow is a great choice for production deployments. Go from code to cloud in seconds with Kubernetes and Deis Workflow. Deissponsored [Creating A Scalable API with Microservices and Google Container Engine](https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/06/creating-a-scalable-API-with-microservices.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Sandeep Dinesh [Analyzing Network Traffic with Julia](https://brandonkmiller.com/?blog/analyzing-network-traffic-with-julia=&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial How Julia can be used to analyze static libpcap format capture files containing IP traffic. Brandon K.​ Miller [Remote Debugging Azure Web Apps from Visual Studio](https://www.opsgility.com/blog/2016/06/22/remote-debugging-azure-web-apps-from-visual-studio/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Chris Pietschmann [Container Monitoring: Top Docker Metrics to Watch](https://sematext.com/blog/2016/06/28/top-docker-metrics-to-watch/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Stefan Thies [Intercepting SSL And HTTPS Traffic with mitmproxy and SSLsplit](https://www.trustwave.com/Resources/SpiderLabs-Blog/Intercepting-SSL-And-HTTPS-Traffic-With-mitmproxy-and-SSLsplit/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Vladimir Zakharevich and Martin Rakhmanov [Building A System That Never Stops: New Relic At Scale](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH8nNANNQ98&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video Matthew Flaming from New Relic on what it takes to (continuously) rebuild a system that can never stop. O'Reilly Velocity Conference [Scaling Agile Development At Spotify](http://slideslive.com/38897393/scaling-agile-development-at-spotify-en?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video Juan Manuel Serruya [Rethinking When to Scale Your Servers](https://medium.com/@elliscmarte/rethinking-when-to-scale-your-servers-e0d9e6fee7c7?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion _“traffic is latency not throughput, therefore scaling should occur when latency levels are unacceptable”_ Ellis Marte [JSON Web Tokens (JWT) vs Sessions](https://float-middle.com/json-web-tokens-jwt-vs-sessions/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Jacek Ciolek [5 Ways to Not Mess Up Microservices in Production](https://www.infoq.com/news/2016/06/five-msa-tips?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Mark Little [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 [TOU: Transport-Level Protocols in User Space](https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/691887/875e7cc70b33c0be/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools “allows any transport-layer protocol (such as TCP or SCTP) to be packaged up and carried within a stream of UDP packets” LWN [ipTools: Free, Online Network Testing Tools](https://iptools.co/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools ping, traceroute, port check, WHOIS, and more. iptools.​co [dockerweb: Connect A Browser to A Docker Container](https://github.com/simon-engledew/dockerweb?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Proof of concept for attaching a Web-based terminal to a Docker container. Simon Engledew [Passive TCP/IP Geo-Location Demo](http://geoloc.foremski.pl/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Interesting proof of concept doing geolocation by passive monitoring TCP/IP round trip times. foremski.​pl    [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/72) [See our archives](http://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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