---
title: "Issue 8: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 8
published_at: "2015-04-01"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/8"
---

WebOps Weekly 8   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/8) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 8 — April 1, 2015     

[Advanced Performance Audits with Chrome DevTools](http://www.paulirish.com/2015/advanced-performance-audits-with-devtools/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Paul Irish introduces a document he’s written where he looks at scrolling, reponsiveness, and input latency issues on three major sites, using Chrome’s DevTools to do the heavy lifting. Paul Irish [The State and Rate of HTTP/2 Adoption](http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2015/03/31/the-state-and-rate-of-http2-adoption/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news A look at what browsers, HTTP servers, proxies, and other services support HTTP/2 and how much remains to be done. Daniel Stenberg [The Age of Developer-Defined Infrastructure](http://venturebeat.com/2015/04/01/the-geek-shall-inherit-the-earth-the-age-of-developer-defined-infrastructure/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion A quick thought piece by Jerry Chen of Greylock Partners about how developers are now critical in the decision making process over Web infrastructure. VentureBeat [The first ops platform for developers](https://opbeat.com/?campaign=webopsweekly&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=ad&utm_campaign=webopsweekly100) When an error happens, Opbeat will show you the code that is breaking, who wrote it, and how it is affecting performance. Now available for iOS and Android, so you can do ops when you’re AFK. _WebOps weekly readers get $100 credit._ Opbeatsponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/906f6ee6.png)](https://opbeat.com/?campaign=webopsweekly&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=ad&utm_campaign=webopsweekly100) [An Introduction to Chef](https://semaphoreci.com/community/tutorials/introduction-to-chef?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Chef is a Ruby-powered configuration management tool. This is the first in a 3 part series of using Chef for managing your app’s infrastructure. Semaphore [Rendering Performance: A Google Web Fundamentals Guide](https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/performance/rendering/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Pages should not only load quickly, but also run well; scrolling should be stick-to-finger fast, and animations and interactions should be silky smooth. This guide from Google covers areas from JavaScript and styles to layouts and input handlers. Google [Facebook's Mystery Machine: End-to-end Performance Analysis of Large-Scale Internet Services](http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/the-mystery-machine-end-to-end.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) An introduction to an academic paper (that includes two Facebook co-authors) that looks at a way to perform performance analysis on a large site (i.e. Facebook) and use the results to improve performance. Murat Buffalo [Assessing Mobile Usability With Google Webmaster Tools](http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/03/25/assessing-mobile-usability-google-webmaster-tools/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Tim Jensen shows how to flag mobile issues in Webmaster Tools and how to assess mobile usability problems on your website based on these flags. Smashing Magazine In brief [The Next Generation of Dense-Storage Instances for EC2](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/next-generation-of-dense-storage-instances-for-ec2/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news AWS Official Blog [Authoritative DNS Performance Reports](http://www.turbobytes.com/reports/dns-performance/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news TurboBytes [Google Says 5% Of Visitors To Its Sites Have Ad Injectors Installed](http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/31/google-says-5-of-web-browsers-have-ad-injectors-installed/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news TechCrunch [Critical Vulnerabilities in JSON Web Token Libraries](https://auth0.com/blog/2015/03/31/critical-vulnerabilities-in-json-web-token-libraries/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Auth0 [The 'Refresh' HTTP Header](http://www.otsukare.info/2015/03/26/refresh-http-header?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Karl Dubost [A Sample Docker Workflow with Nginx, Node.js and Redis](http://anandmanisankar.com/posts/docker-container-nginx-node-redis-example/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Anand Mani Sankar [Producing High Quality GIFs with FFmpeg](http://blog.pkh.me/p/21-high-quality-gif-with-ffmpeg.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial It’s amazing to see how smoothly these GIFs come out with the right settings. Clement Boesch [Enough With the Salts: Updates on Secure Password Schemes](http://chargen.matasano.com/chargen/2015/3/26/enough-with-the-salts-updates-on-secure-password-schemes.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Matasano Security [Getting an A+ on the SSL Labs Test in Node.js](https://certsimple.com/blog/a-plus-node-js-ssl?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Cert Simple [Stop using tail -f (mostly)](http://www.brianstorti.com/stop-using-tail/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial An interesting tip if you’re tailing logs a lot. Brian Storti [Best Practices for Faster and Better Page Performance](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMEH5eAY_yM&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video As browsers evolve so do best practices for page performance. Web developer Shefali Pandey gives a presentation on ways to improve performance over time. Shefali Pandey [Adopting Encryption: The Need for HTTPS](http://www.iab.net/iablog/2015/03/adopting-encryption-the-need-for-https.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion The Interactive Advertising Bureau is supporting the wide usage of HTTPS and sees advantages for third-party ad servers too. IABlog [How We Scale VividCortex's Backend Systems](http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/3/30/how-we-scale-vividcortexs-backend-systems.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Lots of deep technical details about how they structure their data and the big wins they get from MySQL and Redis. High Scalability [A Picture is Worth a Thousand Bytes](http://blog.catchpoint.com/2015/03/26/image-optimization-sprites/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Catchpoint [Use the Right Web Performance Tools for the Job](http://zoompf.com/blog/2015/03/use-the-right-web-performance-tools-for-the-job?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Zoompf Web Performance [Hyperlink: Detect Invalid and Inefficient Links On Your Webpages](https://github.com/Munter/hyperlink?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code tools Written in Node. Peter Müller [The Log File Navigator: An Advanced Log File Viewer for The Small-Scale](http://lnav.org/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Binaries for Mac OS X and Linux, but it’s open source. Tim Stack    [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/8) [See our archives](http://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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