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title: "Issue 80: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 80
published_at: "2016-08-24"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/80"
---

WebOps Weekly 80   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/80) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 80 — August 24, 2016     

[The Basics of Web Application Security](http://martinfowler.com/articles/web-security-basics.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial A recently updated collection of articles that seek to provide a first step for developers hoping to ramp up fast on a range of web security points. Martin Fowler, Cade Cairns and Daniel Somerfield [gRPC: An Internet-Scale RPC Framework Is Ready for Production](https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/08/gRPC-a-true-Internet-scale-RPC-framework-is-now-1-and-ready-for-production-deployments.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools gRPC is an RPC framework built upon technology used internally at Google to scale up to tens of billions of requests per second. Now a public release is at 1.0 and ready for full use, says Google. Google Cloud Platform Blog [TCP Puzzlers](https://www.joyent.com/blog/tcp-puzzlers?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial A fun look at 3 scenarios relating to dropped TCP connections that you can replicate and learn from. Joyent [Free eBook: Understanding the Docker Ecosystem](http://resources.codeship.com/ebooks/docker-ecosystem?utm_source=webopsweeklyprimary) In this free eBook, we introduce the Docker Hub, Docker Engine, Kitematic, Docker Machine, Docker Swarm, Docker Compose, Docker Cloud, and Data Center. Learn what they are and how they work. Codeshipsponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/2ff4403d.png)](http://resources.codeship.com/ebooks/docker-ecosystem?utm_source=webopsweeklyprimary) [A Case Study on Boosting Front-End Performance](https://css-tricks.com/case-study-boosting-front-end-performance/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Declan Rek shares real-world advice on boosting front-end performance from static site generation and the `picture` element to lazy loading CSS and caching. CSS Tricks [CloudFlare's Bandwidth Costs Around the World](https://blog.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-costs-around-the-world/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story CloudFlare’s network spans 45 countries so they get a unique perspective on the cost of local bandwidth. Oceania and South America are notably expensive. CloudFlare [What If You Could Run The Same, Everywhere?](https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/07/how-to-escape-lock-in-with-a-multi-cloud-stack.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story _“Is multi-cloud a pipe dream? I think not!”_ says Miles Ward of Google’s Cloud Platform Team. GCP is actively enabling interoperability where possible. Google Cloud Platform Blog [How To Use WebPageTest and its API](https://css-tricks.com/use-webpagetest-api/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial A handy tutorial digging into [WebPageTest](https://www.webpagetest.org/), a site speed test tool, its RESTful API, and how to use it optimize your own sites. Eduardo Bouças [Workq: A Go Job Scheduling Server](https://github.com/iamduo/workq?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code A standalone job scheduling server focused on simplifying job processing and streamlining coordination - runs as a stand alone TCP server with a simple text based protocol. Duo Zheng [Scaling and Developer Productivity at Coinbase](https://medium.com/the-coinbase-blog/scaling-developer-productivity-d23ce491f869?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story A glimpse into the data behind deployments at Coinbase and one way they think about developer productivity. _Deployment velocity_ is a key metric there. Rob Witoff Jobs [AWS Video Training Author (Freelance, Part-time)](http://go2.pluralsight.com/C0001187?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) 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 [Major Mobile US Networks Pass 50% IPv6 Threshold](http://www.worldipv6launch.org/major-mobile-us-networks-pass-50-ipv6-threshold/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news IPv6 is now dominant across four major US mobile networks: Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint and AT&T. Mat Ford [Seagate Introduces a 60TB SSD – Is a 3.6PB Storage Pod Next?](https://www.backblaze.com/blog/seagate-60tb-ssd-36pb-storage-pod-next/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Not cheap but the storage density will be interesting for datacenter use. Backblaze [NGINX Plus R10 Released](https://www.nginx.com/blog/nginx-plus-r10-released/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news The latest commercial NGINX release includes the initial release of their ModSecurity 3-powered web application firewall (WAF). Owen Garrett [Reliable Ordered Messages](http://gafferongames.com/building-a-game-network-protocol/reliable-ordered-messages/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial 5th in a series of building a game network protocol. Glenn Fiedler [Setting Up A Development Environment with Docker Compose](http://blog.dubizzle.com/boilerroom/2016/08/18/setting-development-environment-docker-compose/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Boiler Room [HTTP/2 Connection Coalescing](https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/08/18/http2-connection-coalescing/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Section 9.1.1 in RFC7540 explains how HTTP/2 clients can reuse connections. Here’s how this works in reality. Daniel Stenberg [Autoscaling: Its Purpose and Strategies](https://blog.codeship.com/autoscaling-purpose-strategies/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Brian Troutwine [We're Excited About Docker Distributed Application Bundles](http://corgibytes.com/blog/2016/06/22/docker-distributed-application-bundles/) story Why does this feature have the potential to be revolutionary? M. Scott Ford from Corgibytes explains. Corgibytessponsored [Engineering Trade-Offs and The Netflix API Re-Architecture](http://techblog.netflix.com/2016/08/engineering-trade-offs-and-netflix-api.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Daniel Jacobson [Let's Look At Some of The Security At GitHub](https://chloe.re/2016/08/15/lets-look-at-some-of-the-security-at-github/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story A look at 5 things GitHub does to improve user security on the front-end. Chloe [Website Enumeration Insanity: How Our Personal Data Is Leaked](https://www.troyhunt.com/website-enumeration-insanity-how-our-personal-data-is-leaked/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story “Names, addresses, phone numbers all retrievable with nothing more than an email address.” Troy Hunt [Auditing the US Presidential Candidates Websites for Accessibility](https://www.lullabot.com/articles/auditing-presidential-websites-for-accessibility?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Helena Zubkow and Mike Herchel [When Gopher Ruled the Internet](http://thenewstack.io/gopher-ruled-internet/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story _Before the Web, there was Gopher._ David Cassel [Hosting Side-Projects with Docker](https://www.niels-ole.com/side-project/docker/hosting/2016/08/23/home-server-docker.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Niels-Ole Kühl [Pull Doesn't Scale - or Does It?](https://prometheus.io/blog/2016/07/23/pull-does-not-scale-or-does-it/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Prometheus [Lessons Learned From One Year of Monitoring Single Page Applications](https://www.soasta.com/blog/lessons-learned-web-performance-monitoring-single-page-applications/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Nic Jansma [A Better Way to Measure Website Performance](http://restive.io/blog/posts/000002/a-better-way-to-measure-website-performance?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion _“When it comes to measuring the performance of websites, there isn’t a universally accepted metric.”_ Obinwanne Hill [Containers Debunked: DevOps, Security and Why Containers Will Not Replace VMs](http://www.cbronline.com/news/enterprise-it/software/containers-debunked-devops-security-and-why-containers-will-not-replace-virtual-machines-4977492?src=fridayfive1email&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Lars Herrmann [Find and Fix App Errors Faster (and have fun doing it)](https://rollbar.com/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email-nl&utm_term=webopsweekly_8_24&utm_campaign=nl_sponsorship) tools Quickly pinpoint what’s broken and why. Get the context and insights to defeat all software application errors. ROLLBARsponsored [benchttp: HTTP Server Benchmarking Tool](https://github.com/siadat/benchttp?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Reimplements commonly used features from ApacheBench (`ab`). Sina Siadat    [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/80) [See our archives](http://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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