---
title: "Issue 75: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 75
published_at: "2016-07-20"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/75"
---

WebOps Weekly 75   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/75) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 75 — July 20, 2016     

[httpoxy: A Set of Vulnerabilities on CGI/CGI-like Environments](https://httpoxy.org/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news RFC 3875 (CGI) puts the HTTP ‘Proxy’ header from a request into an ‘HTTP_PROXY’ environment variable, but this is then often used to configure an outgoing HTTP proxy. Dominic Scheirlinck [How Google does Planet-Scale Engineering for Planet-Scale Infrastructure](http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/7/18/how-does-google-do-planet-scale-engineering-for-a-planet-sca.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story A write up of a talk given at GCP NEXT 2016 about how Google approaches the challenge of providing ‘planet scale’ infrastructure. High Scalability [Real-World HTTP/2: 400GB of Images Per Day](https://99designs.co.uk/tech-blog/blog/2016/07/14/real-world-http-2-400gb-of-images-per-day/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story A look at the performance outcomes 99designs experienced when adopting HTTP/2. In some cases, rendering time was increased - but why? _“The pursuit of web performance is one of tradeoffs and nuance.”_ Michael Mifsud [Find and Fix App Errors Faster (and have fun doing it)](https://rollbar.com/?utm_source=webops_weekly&utm_medium=email-nl&utm_term=webops_weekly_7_20&utm_campaign=nl_sponsorship) Quickly pinpoint what’s broken and why. Get the context and insights to defeat all Software application errors. ROLLBARsponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/17473d3f.png)](https://rollbar.com/?utm_source=webops_weekly&utm_medium=email-nl&utm_term=webops_weekly_7_20&utm_campaign=nl_sponsorship) [How I Setup A Raspberry Pi 3 Cluster Using The New Docker Swarm Mode](https://medium.com/@bossjones/how-i-setup-a-raspberry-pi-3-cluster-using-the-new-docker-swarm-mode-in-29-minutes-aa0e4f3b1768?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial The Raspberry Pi offers an appealing platform to play around with clustering on a smaller scale. Here, Malcolm demonstrates a Docker Swarm-backed cluster, built in just 30 minutes. Malcolm Jones [The Story of Enabling Secure HTTP for BBC Online](http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/entries/f6f50d1f-a879-4999-bc6d-6634a71e2e60?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Paul Tweedy explains how browsing across BBC Online will become more secure with the release of a new update. It appears [Google Chrome encouraged the BBC to take this move.](http://www.cso.com.au/article/603491/google-chrome-prompts-bbc-enable-https-all-its-sites-by-end-2016/) BBC [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 [Mitigating the HTTPoxy Vulnerability with NGINX](https://www.nginx.com/blog/mitigating-the-httpoxy-vulnerability-with-nginx/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial This post describes the vulnerability (top featured item) and explains how to use NGINX to defeat attempts to exploit it on your servers. Owen Garrett [Microsoft Invests in Fundamentally Speeding Up Networking](http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-invests-in-fundamentally-speeding-up-networking/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Microsoft is updating its TCP/IP network stack to take advantage of Google’s latest Internet network transport improvements. Steven J.​ Vaughan-Nichols Jobs [AWS Video Training Author (Freelance, Part-time)](http://go2.pluralsight.com/C0001187) Create and publish AWS-related training videos on Pluralsight.com. Cash in on your teaching skills by sharing your knowledge with a global audience and helping others learn. Pluralsight [Stop Applying to Jobs - Let Companies Come To You](https://hired.com/?utm_source=newsletters&utm_medium=petercooperpress&utm_campaign=q3-16-webopsweekly) On Hired, engineers typically get 5+ job offers in 1 week. Find that new opportunity you've been craving and get access to 4,000+ companies instantly. Hired.​com In brief [Corgibytes Pays Down Technical Debt](http://corgibytes.com) How clean is your codebase? Corgibytes can help you crank out features faster. corgibytessponsored [Why Marketers Should Care About Mobile Page Speed](https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/articles/mobile-page-speed-load-time.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news New research reveals the factors that cause your mobile site to underperform. Google [etcd3: A New etcd](https://coreos.com/blog/etcd3-a-new-etcd.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news tools CoreOS [Has The Adoption of Containers Stalled?](http://thenewstack.io/parity-check-container-reality-check/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Lawrence Hecht [Skype Finalizes Its Move to The Cloud, Ignores The Elephant in The Room](http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/07/skype-finalizes-its-move-to-the-cloud-ignores-the-elephant-in-the-room/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Has moved away from peer-to-peer. Peter Bright [Apcera NATS Moves to Real-time Message Streaming with Persistence](http://thenewstack.io/apcera-nats-moves-real-time-message-stream-brokering/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Scott M.​ Fulton III [Getting A Network Trace From A Single Application (on Linux)](http://jonasdn.blogspot.com/2016/07/getting-network-trace-from-single.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial jonasdn.​blogspot.​com [Deploying an Elixir App to Google App Engine](https://blog.bensarmiento.com/2016/07/19/Deploying-an-Elixir-app-to-Google-App-Engine/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Ben Sarmiento [From Pet to Cattle – Running Sonar on Kubernetes](http://container-solutions.com/pet-cattle-running-sonar-kubernetes/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Moving Sonar and Postgres off a Jenkins server. Adam Sandor [Moving a Node.js app from PaaS to Kubernetes Tutorial](https://blog.risingstack.com/moving-node-js-from-paas-to-kubernetes-tutorial/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Péter Márton [3 Easy Web Performance Wins for Designers](https://una.im/perf-design-wins/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial A look at image optimization, font choice, and ‘active waiting’. Una Kravets [Web Performance and the Impact of SPDY, HTTP/2 and QUIC: Part 5](https://dzone.com/articles/web-performance-and-the-impact-of-spdy-http2-quic-1?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story The final installment in a 5-part series discussing web application performance and how new protocols like SPDY, HTTP/2, and QUIC will hopefully improve it so we can have happy website users. Jean Tunis [API automation.](http://www.launchbit.com/taz/11160-6500-111) tools Instant developer ecosystems, with auto-generated APIs from any database. Thriving open source community. DreamFactorysponsored [http2-push-detect: Lists HTTP/2 Pushes When Requesting a URL](https://www.npmjs.com/package/http2-push-detect?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Surma [aq: Query AWS Resources with SQL](https://github.com/lebinh/aq?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools e.g. `SELECT instance_type, count(*) count FROM ec2_instances` Binh Le [lua-resty-auto-ssl: Let's Encrypt SSL Reg and renewal inside OpenResty/NGINX](https://github.com/GUI/lua-resty-auto-ssl?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Nick Muerdter [Biscuit: A Multi-Region HA Key-Value Store for AWS Infrastructure Secrets](https://github.com/dcoker/biscuit?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Doug Coker    [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/75) [See our archives](http://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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