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title: "Issue 77: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 77
published_at: "2016-08-03"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/77"
---

WebOps Weekly 77   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/77) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 77 — August 3, 2016     

[Google's QUIC Protocol: Moving The Web From TCP to UDP](https://ma.ttias.be/googles-quic-protocol-moving-web-tcp-udp/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial The QUIC protocol (Quick UDP Internet Connections) is an entirely new protocol for the web developed on top of UDP instead of TCP. Here’s a look at how it works. Mattias Geniar [Use A Slack Bot to Deploy Your App](https://tech-blog.serenytics.com/deploy-your-saas-with-a-slack-bot-f6d1fc764658?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion We’re increasingly seeing companies use Slack as the interface to their apps. There are numerous advantages to this, covered here. Adrien Chauve [Common Pitfalls and Mistakes with NGINX](https://www.nginx.com/resources/wiki/start/topics/tutorials/config_pitfalls/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial A list of issues, along with remedies, for problems NGINX users frequently encounter and report back to the NGINX team. NGINX [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_8_3&utm_campaign=nl_sponsorship) Quickly pinpoint what’s broken and why. Get the context and insights to defeat all software application errors. Rollbarsponsored [5 Ways to Not Mess Up Your Microservices in Production](https://blog.codeship.com/5-ways-not-mess-microservices-production/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion In this post, Alex Zhitnitsky shares some insights and examines the top issues with microservices in production and how to solve them. Alex Zhitnitsky [Using A Static Site Generator at Scale: Lessons Learned](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/08/using-a-static-site-generator-at-scale-lessons-learned/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Static site generators have been in fashion for a while now, but how well can they cope with team development, thousands of pages, or other real world scenarios? Stefan Baumgartner [Bringing HSTS to www.google.com](https://security.googleblog.com/2016/07/bringing-hsts-to-wwwgooglecom.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story HTTP Strict Transport Security prevents users from accidentally navigating to HTTP URLs by automatically converting insecure HTTP URLs into secure HTTPS URLs under certain conditions. Google [A tcpdump Tutorial and Primer with Examples](https://danielmiessler.com/study/tcpdump/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial A tcpdump primer, tutorial, and reference that gives you maximum packet carving in minimum time. Includes numerous examples ranging from basic to advanced. Daniel Miessler [One Pixel Is Worth Three Thousand Words](http://cloudinary.com/blog/one_pixel_is_worth_three_thousand_words?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) More detail and analysis of one-pixel images and the best image formats to encode them than you could hopefully need. Jon Sneyers Jobs [Operations Engineer at Harvest](https://www.getharvest.com/careers/operations-engineer?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) We are looking for an experienced Operations Engineer to join our remote team to work on things like AWS deployment, Ansible, MySQL, nginx, unicorn & Sensu. Pacific, Alaska, & Hawaii–Aleutian Time Zones are preferred but this is not a requirement. Harvest [Find Your Perfect Company Match](https://hired.com/?utm_source=newsletters&utm_medium=petercooperpress&utm_campaign=q3-16-webopsweekly) You're smart, you're efficient. Why job hunt the old way? Try Hired and get your profile in front of thousands of top tech companies. Hired.​com In brief [Windows Falls to Under 50% of Traffic to US Government Websites](https://analytics.usa.gov/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news analytics.​usa.​gov [Hard Drive Failure Rates: The Results from 68,813 Hard Drives](https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-failure-rates-q2-2016/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news A close look at hard drive failure rates from hard drives used in Backblaze’s datacenter. Backblaze [Mesos Reaches Milestone, Adds Native Docker](http://www.nextplatform.com/2016/07/27/mesos-reaches-milestone-adds-native-docker/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news The Next Platform [Terraform 0.7 Released](https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/terraform-0-7.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Hashicorp’s open source tool for efficiently building and launching infrastructure. Hashicorp [YouTube's Road to HTTPS](https://youtube-eng.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/youtubes-road-to-https.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news In the last two years, HTTPS encryption has been rolled out to 97 percent of YouTube’s traffic. Google [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 [Make Your App Fast and Scalable with NGINX Web Cache Directives](http://www.theodo.fr/blog/2016/07/nginx-web-cache-directives-make-your-app-fast-and-scalable-in-15-minutes/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Maxime Sraïki [Your AWS Account Is A Mess? Learn How to Fix It](https://cloudonaut.io/your-aws-account-is-a-mess-learn-how-to-fix-it/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Launch pad for Amazon Web Services Cloudonaut [How to Setup a Highly Available Multi-AZ Cassandra Cluster on AWS EC2](http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/8/1/how-to-setup-a-highly-available-multi-az-cassandra-cluster-o.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial High Scalability [Key Moments in Web Page Loading](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFwogd4CdwY&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video A quick look at the meaning of ‘time to first paint’ and how long it takes for a page to be truly useful. YouTube [We're Excited About Docker Distributed Application Bundles](http://corgibytes.com/blog/2016/06/22/docker-distributed-application-bundles/) opinion Why does this feature have the potential to be revolutionary? M. Scott Ford from Corgibytes explains. Corgibytessponsored [Message Queues: The Right Way to Process and Work with Realtime Data](https://blog.ably.io/message-queues-the-right-way-to-process-and-work-with-realtime-data-on-your-servers-2d15985301f8?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Matthew O'Riordan [Why Aren’t We Using SSH for Everything?](https://medium.com/swlh/ssh-how-does-it-even-9e43586e4ffc?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Dozens of facts about the SSH protocol and why we should use it for more things. Andrey Petrov [Practical DevOps Use Case: Using GitHub, Jenkins and Docker](http://www.stratoscale.com/blog/devops/practical-devops-use-case-github-jenkins-docker/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Rom Freiman [Building Highly Scalable IPv6-Only Cloud Hosting](http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/7/20/building-highly-scalable-v6-only-cloud-hosting.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story High Scalability [Netflix's Billing Migration to AWS](http://techblog.netflix.com/2016/08/netflix-billing-migration-to-aws-part.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Part three in a series of posts looking at the technical aspects of moving Netflix’s billing system to AWS. Roopa Tangirala [One Way to Make Containers Network: BGP](http://jvns.ca/blog/2016/07/16/calico/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Julia Evans [Why WordPress Doesn't Allow SVG Uploads](https://bjornjohansen.no/svg-in-wordpress?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Bjorn Johansen [LetsEncrypt Heroku: Bring SSL to Any Heroku App in Minutes](https://github.com/substrakt/letsencrypt-heroku?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Bills itself as alpha software so YMMV. Substrakt [Sup: Super Simple Deployment Tool](https://pressly.github.io/sup/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Performs a given set of commands on multiple hosts in parallel. Pressly [Stresser: Node-Powered HTTP(S) Endpoint Stress Tester](https://github.com/legraphista/stresser?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Ștefan-Gabriel Muscalu [s3-uploader: MacOS Electron+React App for Uploading Files to S3](https://github.com/RafalWilinski/s3-uploader?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Rafal Wilinski [RIP HTTP: A Site That Promises to Stay Plain HTTP Forever](http://http.rip/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools As well as being a ‘memorial’, this could also be handy for testing. http.​rip    [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/77) [See our archives](http://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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