--- title: "Issue 74: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news" publication: "StatusCode Weekly" issue: 74 published_at: "2016-07-13" canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/74" --- WebOps Weekly 74 . The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/74) [![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 74 — July 13, 2016 Welcome We're currently redesigning our newsletters and making editorial tweaks, so if you have a spare minute and could [answer a few questions](https://cooperpress.typeform.com/to/juHCDa) about your opinions on this newsletter, [click here to help.](https://cooperpress.typeform.com/to/juHCDa) You could make a real impact in what this newsletter covers and how it does it :-) Thanks! [Microservices: State of the Union](https://www.infoq.com/presentations/microservices-review?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video In a 50 minute talk, Adrian Cockcroft looks at success/failure stories of adopting microservices, overviews what’s next and presents techniques that have led to successful deployments. InfoQ [Gaining Control of a .int Domain Name with DNS Trickery](https://thehackerblog.com/the-international-incident-gaining-control-of-a-int-domain-name-with-dns-trickery/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story An interesting tale of the .int TLD and how the author got a list of all .int domains and discovered a curiously simple way to take one over. mandatory [Next Big Thing After Containers? Amazon CTO Talks Up Serverless Computing](http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/11/the_next_big_thing_after_containers_amazon_cto_talks_up_serverless_computing/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news We’ve mentioned the ‘serverless’ paradigm a lot here lately, and Amazon’s Dr Werner Vogels talked up the value of this paradigm at last week’s AWS Summit in London: _“In a serverless world you don’t have to think about containers any more, you just write your code. You glue the different pieces together that are all managed. They are managed for you.”_ The Register [No Time to Do Those Small but Critical Updates?](https://www.reinteractive.net/service/code-care?sid=92) 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/252cd056.jpg)](https://www.reinteractive.net/service/code-care?sid=92) [SYN Flood Mitigation at GitHub with synsanity](http://githubengineering.com/syn-flood-mitigation-with-synsanity/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story GitHub is a frequent target of denial of service attacks. Theo Julienne looks at the form these attacks can take and [a new tool](https://github.com/github/synsanity) they’ve open sourced to help mitigate SYN flood attacks. GitHub Engineering [Microservices Bliss with Docker and Traefik](http://blog.hypriot.com/post/microservices-bliss-with-docker-and-traefik/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story A thorough look at using Traefik as a frontend proxy to microservices. Traefik is interesting as it can dynamically manage the services it services requests for via Docker events. Hypriot [A Look at AWS EFS — The Container Friendly File System](https://medium.com/@nzoschke/aws-efs-the-container-friendly-file-system-d5cc1353323e?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial EFS is now production ready in 3 AWS regions. This walkthrough looks at running a Postgres container on EFS and what benefits that brings. Noah Zoschke [An Introduction to Kubernetes Architecture](http://x-team.com/2016/07/introduction-kubernetes-architecture/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial A look at Kubernetes’ high level architecture, if you’re not yet familiar with Google’s open source container orchestration system. Nune Isabekyan [OpsWorks CLI: The 'Missing' CLI for AWS OpsWorks](https://github.com/plivo/opsworks?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools AWS OpsWorks is a config management service for configuring applications using Chef. This tool makes it easier to work with. Plivo Inc [Deploying ELK with Docker](https://www.exoscale.ch/syslog/2016/07/11/elk-docker/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial How to use Docker’s logging tools to collect and manage logs with Elasticsearch + Logstash + Kibana (aka ELK). Matthieu Buffenoir Jobs [DevOps Engineer at Semaphore CI (remote)](http://renderedtext.com/jobs/devops-engineer?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email&utm_content=webopsweekly-20160713&utm_campaign=jobs) Be at the forefront of continuous delivery and DevOps. Rendered Text [Job Offers. No resume necessary.](https://hired.com/?utm_source=newsletters&utm_medium=petercooperpress&utm_term=cat-tech-mobile&utm_content=noresume&utm_campaign=q3-16-webopsweekly&utm_location=us) Create your Hired profile to get top companies to start applying to hire you. Get offers from $75,000 - $250,000 on the platform in 1 week. Hired.​com In brief [Dev Ops for Frontend Engineers, July 27 in San Francisco](http://forwardjs.com/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email#dev-ops-for-frontend-engineers) news Led by Netflix's Jem Young, this full-day workshop covers everything to do to build a webserver to host your very own web app, from setting up DNS and Nginx to configuring node and building a JS deploy system. ForwardJSsponsored [DigitalOcean Launches 'Block Storage'](https://www.digitalocean.com/features/storage/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news You can now attach resizable, separate SSD block storage volumes to your DO instances. DigitalOcean [Four Major Technical Challenges Facing IoT Developers](https://www.sitepoint.com/4-major-technical-challenges-facing-iot-developers/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Ben Dickson discusses four major challenges presented by IoT, from privacy and security to connectivity and compatibility/longevity. Sitepoint [How to Run Containers in Production Environments](http://thenewstack.io/considerations-containers-production/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Vivek Juneja [The Life and Death of A Container](https://medium.com/@lherrera/life-and-death-of-a-container-146dfc62f808?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story A look at self-healing resets, health-check probes, and live restores. Luis Herrera Benítez [Using Zopfli to Optimize PNG Images](http://ariya.ofilabs.com/2016/06/using-zopfli-to-optimize-png-images.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial A way to reduce the size of your PNGs (often significantly) in a lossless fashion. Ariya Hidayat [Using Hashicorp Vault as a PKI SSL/TLS CA](http://cuddletech.com/?p=959&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial cuddletech [Using AWS Lambda to Verify Site Uptime](https://medium.com/@milanaleksic/using-aws-lambda-to-verify-uptime-5a459fc3bef6?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Milan Aleksić [Phoenix Continuous Deployment](https://www.gitbook.com/book/dustinfarris/phoenix-continuous-deployment/details?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial A freely readable online book for Phoenix/Elixir users. Dustin Farris [Improving Rails Performance with Better Background Jobs](https://medium.com/codeminer-42/improving-rails-scalability-with-better-architecture-c102a2a0cdec?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Luiz Rogerio [Web and Browser Performance is More Important Than Ever](https://dev.to/ben/web-and-browser-performance-is-more-important-than-ever?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Thoughts gleaned from the web performance discussions at O’Reilly Velocity Conference. Ben Halpern [Our Nightmare on Amazon ECS](http://www.appuri.com/blog/-our-docker-nightmare-on-amazon-ecs/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion “Our nightmare on Amazon EC2 Elastic Container Service (ECS) and how we saved ourselves by moving to Kubernetes” Bilal Aslam [Why CloudFlare Uses The Linux Kernel's TCP Stack](https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-use-the-linux-kernels-tcp-stack/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion CloudFlare [Goldilocks Microservices: How to Get Microservices 'Just Right'](https://vanilla-java.github.io/2016/06/30/Goldilocks-Microservices.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Peter Lawrey [Native Continuous Delivery for Docker](https://semaphoreci.com/product/docker?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email&utm_content=webopsweekly-20160713&utm_campaign=docker-cooperpress) tools Join developers at Intel and 500px who are using Semaphore to test and deploy their apps quickly and reliably. Semaphoresponsored [Penetration Testing Tools Cheat Sheet](https://highon.coffee/blog/penetration-testing-tools-cheat-sheet/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools A quick reference cheat-sheet providing a high-level overview of the typical commands you could run for performing a penetration test. High On Coffee [Dependency CI: Continuous Testing for Your App's Dependencies](https://dependencyci.com/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools A new (commercial) automatic compliance testing tool. Dependency CI [A Tour of Codenvy's Portable Developer Workspaces](http://thenewstack.io/developers-laptop-container-workspace-codenvy/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Kiran 'CK' Oliver [Preview the Python Serverless Microframework for AWS](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/preview-the-python-serverless-microframework-for-aws/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools A quick video looking at [Chalice](https://github.com/awslabs/chalice), the recently published preview of the Python Serverless Microframework for AWS. Peter Moon In case you missed it at the top of this issue, we're doing a [quick, informal survey](https://cooperpress.typeform.com/to/juHCDa) about your opinions on this newsletter - it would be a huge help if you could share your opinions. 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