---
title: "Issue 81: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 81
published_at: "2016-08-31"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/81"
---

WebOps Weekly 81   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/81) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 81 — August 31, 2016     

[Stop Cross-Site Timing Attacks with SameSite Cookies](https://www.igvita.com/2016/08/26/stop-cross-site-timing-attacks-with-samesite-cookies/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial If your site or service does not intentionally provide cross-origin resources, you should use ‘SameSite’ cookies as your default. Ilya Grigorik looks at how and why. Ilya Grigorik [The Infrastructure Behind Twitter: Efficiency and Optimization](https://blog.twitter.com/2016/the-infrastructure-behind-twitter-efficiency-and-optimization?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story An overview of Twitter’s data centers and the hardware engineering journey at Twitter. Twitter [Docker Comes to Raspberry Pi](https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/docker-comes-to-raspberry-pi/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news The latest Docker release includes Raspbian installation support so you can get going very quickly. Potentially a great platform to learn about building a cluster and how Swarm works. Raspberry Pi [Free eBook: Automate your Development Workflow with Docker](https://resources.codeship.com/ebooks/automate-development-workflow-with-docker?utm_source=webopsweeklyprimary) Learn how to use Docker to solve the problems of inconsistent environments on varying deployment targets and how to build an app to run inside an isolated Docker Container. Codeshipsponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/2117e6a6.png)](https://resources.codeship.com/ebooks/automate-development-workflow-with-docker?utm_source=webopsweeklyprimary) [Processing Payments at Scale at Groupon](https://engineering.groupon.com/2016/misc/processing-payments-at-scale/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Groupon charges $17M every day, but how does the technology behind it work? A look at the open source [Kill Bill](http://killbill.io/) system they use and how they make it work at scale. Groupon [A Docker Fork: Talk of a Split Is Now on the Table](http://thenewstack.io/docker-fork-talk-split-now-table/?hn=1&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Discussions about a split from Docker are now underway among several Docker ecosystem vendors and end users. Alex Williams [The Moment When You Realize Every Server in The World Is Vulnerable](https://medium.freecodecamp.com/hash-table-attack-8e4371fc5261?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story The story of a major hash table vulnerability, and how it took a decade to uncover and resolve. Carl Tashian [Memento at the W3C: A 'Time Travel' Extension for HTTP](https://www.w3.org/blog/2016/08/memento-at-the-w3c/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news _“The W3C Wiki and the W3C specifications are now accessible using the Memento ‘Time Travel for the Web’ protocol.”_ Memento is an HTTP extension that adds a ‘time dimension’ to the Web. Herbert Van De Sompel Jobs [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 [Amazon Route 53 Announces NAPTR Record Support and DNS Query Test Tool](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/08/amazon-route-53-announces-naptr-record-support-and-dns-query-test-tool/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Amazon Web Services, Inc.​ [Apollo Global Is Buying Rackspace for $4.3 Billion](http://uk.businessinsider.com/apollo-is-buying-rackspace-in-a-43-billion-deal-2016-8?r=US&IR=T&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Business Insider [VMware Pitches NSX Virtual Networking as the Foundation for Every Workload](http://thenewstack.io/vmware-pitches-nsx-virtual-networking-foundation-every-workload/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news The New Stack [NGINX Gains Market Share in August's Netcraft Web Server Survey](http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/nginx-gains-market-share-in-augusts-netcraft-web-server-survey?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news The Whir [How To Set Up NGINX with HTTP/2 Support on Ubuntu 16.04](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-nginx-with-http-2-support-on-ubuntu-16-04?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial DigitalOcean [JSON Web Tokens vs. Session Cookies: In Practice](https://ponyfoo.com/articles/json-web-tokens-vs-session-cookies?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Nicolás Bevacqua [A Guide to Migrating from HTTP to HTTPS](https://www.technohacker.com/migrate-http-https-complete-guide/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Anil Chopra [Why Do UDP Packets Get Dropped?](http://jvns.ca/blog/2016/08/24/find-out-where-youre-dropping-packets/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Julia Evans [How We Survived Hacker News using Docker and AWS](https://www.loopperfect.com/blog/how-we-survived-hackernews/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story LoopPerfect [How Mail.Ru Uses Tarantool to Help Scale Its Anti-Spam Service](http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/8/30/the-cat-and-mouse-story-of-implementing-anti-spam-for-mailru.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Tarantool is a NoSQL database running in a Lua application server. High Scalability [Send app & system errors to Slack chat (free)](http://papertrailapp.com/?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=email&utm_content=slack-email-pagerduty&utm_campaign=webops-20160831) tools Logs are good; logs that someone reads are better. Send logs to Slack, email, PagerDuty, or a webhook. Papertrailsponsored [The Idiot's Guide to Quashing Microservices](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ungfwiHovnA&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video 40-minute video overview of the rapidly changing microservices landscape filmed at GOTO Chicago. GOTO Chicago 2016 [Fetching and Running Docker Container Images with rkt](https://coreos.com/blog/fetching-and-running-docker-container-images-with-rkt.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video CoreOS [Spark Comparison: AWS vs. Google Cloud Platform](https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/spark-comparison-aws-vs-gcp?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Assessing cost, performance, and run time of a typical Spark workload. Michael Li and Ariel M'ndange-Pfupfu [12 Reasons Why Your App Won’t Scale](http://blog.scalingo.com/post/149073816358/12-reasons-why-your-app-wont-scale?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Scalingo [Considering OpenStack in the Enterprise? What To Consider](http://openstack.cioreview.com/cxoinsight/considering-openstack-nid-18269-cid-120.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion CIO Review [10 Ways To Win At DevOps: What IT Pros Need To Know](http://www.informationweek.com/devops/10-ways-to-win-at-devops-what-it-pros-need-to-know/d/d-id/1326671?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Information Week [Making Stakeholders Aware of the Impact of Website Performance](https://www.jonathanfielding.com/increasing-awareness-of-performance-impact/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Jonathan Fielding [3 Subtle Lessons Learned While Building Microservices](http://blog.runnable.com/post/149676042396/lessons-learned-while-building-microservices?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Anton Podviaznikov [JavaScript performance monitoring](https://opbeat.com/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=newsletter) tools Instantly pinpoint application performance issues, and see who wrote the slow code. Opbeatsponsored [50 Top Server Monitoring and Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Solutions](https://haydenjames.io/50-top-server-monitoring-application-performance-monitoring-apm-solutions/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Hayden James [Open-Source DevOps Security Tools, and How to Use Them](http://techbeacon.com/best-open-source-devops-security-tools-how-use-them?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools TechBeacon    [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/81) [See our archives](http://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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