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title: "A/B testing with NGINX, Moving a major site to HTTPS, and Load-balancing WebSockets"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 76
published_at: "2016-07-28"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/76"
---

WebOps Weekly 76   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/76) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 76 — July 28, 2016     

[Performing A/B Testing with NGINX](https://www.nginx.com/blog/performing-a-b-testing-nginx-plus/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial A thorough guide exploring how NGINX can help with A/B testing, by routing traffic based either on a hashing algorithm or client characteristics. NGINX [How AWS Powered Amazon’s Biggest Day Ever](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/how-aws-powered-amazons-biggest-day-ever/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Amazon accounted for 74% of all US consumer e-commerce on Prime Day 2016 — here’s how their infrastructure scaled up to match the traffic surge. Amazon [HTTPS is Hard: Moving a Major Site to HTTPS](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PpzVA3U-lw&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video Steve Workman takes us through a 9-month journey of how Yell.com moved to HTTPS. Pusher [Download free eBook: Why Containers and Docker are the Future](http://resources.codeship.com/ebooks/why-containers-and-docker-are-the-future?utm_source=webopsweeklyprimary) In this eBook we will have a look at the Traditional Stack, the Virtual Machine Stack and the Container Stack. Codeshipsponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/68845286.png)](http://resources.codeship.com/ebooks/why-containers-and-docker-are-the-future?utm_source=webopsweeklyprimary) [Microservices: The Organizational and People Impact](https://www.microservices.com/talks/microservices-organizational-people-impact/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video How does deploying microservices affect your dev and ops teams, team leads, and your organization as a whole? Daniel Bryant explains. Daniel Bryant [How to Set Up Multiple Secure Sites using LXD Containers](https://simos.info/blog/how-to-set-up-multiple-secure-ssltls-qualys-ssl-labs-a-websites-using-lxd-containers/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial A complete walkthrough of creating multiple secure (SSL/TLS, Qualys SSL Labs A+) sites within [LXD](https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/) containers using HAProxy and Let’s Encrypt. Simos Xenitellis [Security-as-a-Service Startup StackPath Nabs $180M, Makes 4 Acquisitions](https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/25/security-as-a-service-startup-stackpath-nabs-180m-4-acquisitions-including-maxcdn/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Big industry news. StackPath believes it has the key (and size) to fighting malicious hackers once and for all. It has acquired MaxCDN, Fireblade, Cloak and Staminus to see out its goals. Ingrid Lunden [Load Balancing WebSocket Connections](https://deepstream.io/blog/load-balancing-websocket-connections/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial A look at the problems and solutions around scaling up the management of WebSocket connections. Wolfram Hempel Jobs [Senior Web Developer, Washington, DC, Slate](http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/slate_fare/2008/04/a_job_for_you_at_slate.html#accordion-sr-web-developer) Slate is hiring a senior web developer to help us build the next iteration of [slate.com](http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/slate_fare/2008/04/a_job_for_you_at_slate.html#accordion-sr-web-developer) with the rest of our team in Washington, DC. We're putting a new front end and CMS on top of our Django Content API. Come join us. Slate Magazine [Stop wasting time - know what you'll earn before the interview](https://hired.com/?utm_source=newsletters&utm_medium=petercooperpress&utm_campaign=q3-16-webopsweekly) On Hired, sign up in 10 minutes and get offers from top companies like GitHub, Uber, & Stripe. Engineers get an average of 5 offers on the platform in 1 week Hired.​com In brief [The Creators of Pokémon Go Are Hiring Somebody to Help Them Fix The Servers](http://www.businessinsider.com/pokemon-go-niantic-hiring-to-fix-servers-2016-7?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Probably not a huge surprise given its rapid popularity. Matt Weinberger [Let's Encrypt Gets Full Support for IPv6](https://letsencrypt.org/2016/07/26/full-ipv6-support.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Let’s Encrypt [Electric Cloud Automates Rolling Deployments for Zero-Downtime Updates](http://thenewstack.io/electric-cloud-automates-rolling-deployments/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news The New Stack [Supplement Your Income Sharing Your AWS & Dev Knowledge](http://go2.pluralsight.com/C0001187) Teach & inspire learners worldwide. Grow & establish your personal brand. Be an author. Make a difference. PLURALSIGHTsponsored [Testing HTTP APIs With SuperTest, a Node-Powered HTTP Assertions Tool](https://dzone.com/articles/testing-http-apis-with-supertest?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial tools Benjamin Young [Writing systemd Units](http://hokstadconsulting.com/devops/writing-systemd-units?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Vidar Hokstad [Designing Easily Unit Testable AWS Lambda Functions](https://claudiajs.com/tutorials/designing-testable-lambdas.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Gojko Adzic [Deploy a Highly-Available MongoDB Replica Set on AWS](https://eladnava.com/deploy-a-highly-available-mongodb-replica-set-on-aws/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial A comprehensive guide to setting up your own cluster. Elad Nava [Monitoring Elasticsearch at Scale](https://www.instana.com/blog/monitoring-elasticsearch-scale/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Kristof Berger [How SmartNews Built a Content Recommendation Engine on AWS](https://blogs.aws.amazon.com/bigdata/post/Tx2V1BSKGITCMTU/How-SmartNews-Built-a-Lambda-Architecture-on-AWS-to-Analyze-Customer-Behavior-an?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story SmartNews is a heavily data-driven organization and its use of numerous tools and services is striking. Amazon [I Wanna Go Fast: HTTPS' Massive Speed Advantage](https://www.troyhunt.com/i-wanna-go-fast-https-massive-speed-advantage/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Troy Hunt [How I Built An App with 500,000 Users in 5 Days on a $100/mo Server](https://medium.com/unboxd/how-i-built-an-app-with-500-000-users-in-5-days-on-a-100-server-77deeb238e83?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Erik Duindam [The Scary Leap From SysOps to DevOps](https://besttech.io/the-scary-leap-from-sysops-to-devops-8a7ff91882dd?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Rebuilding a career, jumping into the unknown Chris Dodds [How Twitter's Source Code for Vine Was Obtained](https://avicoder.me/2016/07/22/Twitter-Vine-Source-code-dump/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story A white hat was able to download Vine’s entire source code by getting hold of its Docker images. avicoder [Entropy/IP: Uncovering Structure in IPv6 Addresses](http://arxiv.org/abs/1606.04327?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story An academic paper. Foremski, Plonka, Berger [Economics May Drive 'Serverless'](http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/7/27/economics-may-drive-serverless.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion High Scalability [Kubernetes at Box: Microservices at Maximum Velocity](https://www.box.com/blog/kubernetes-box-microservices-maximum-velocity/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Sam Ghods [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_27&utm_campaign=nl_sponsorship) tools Quickly pinpoint what’s broken and why. Get the context and insights to defeat all Software application errors. Rollbarsponsored [rktnetes Brings rkt Container Engine to Kubernetes](http://blog.kubernetes.io/2016/07/rktnetes-brings-rkt-container-engine-to-Kubernetes.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Kubernetes [GitFTP-Deploy: Dead Simple FTP-Deployments for Smaller Projects](https://eastwest.se/apps/gitftpdeploy?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools A commercial tool with a trial. Eastwest [AWS API Info: A Handy Quick Lookup Reference to AWS's APIs](http://aws-api.info/s3/2006-03-01?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Dutch Coders    [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/76) [See our archives](http://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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