---
title: "Issue 84: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 84
published_at: "2016-09-21"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/84"
---

WebOps Weekly 84   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/84) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 84 — September 21, 2016     

[What is OpenResty? The World's 5th Most-Used Web Server](http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/20/wtf_is_openresty_the_worlds_fifthmostused_web_server_thats_what/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news OpenResty is a ‘superset’ of NGINX that’s bundled with LuaJIT and numerous 3rd-party NGINX modules. Tumblr has recently moved over to it. The Register [Tuning NGINX for Better Performance](https://blog.codeship.com/tuning-nginx/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Here’s how to tune an out-of-the-box instance of NGINX to get more out of an already high-performance web server with a few common tuning parameters. Ben Cane [Understanding REST and RPC For HTTP APIs](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/09/understanding-rest-and-rpc-for-http-apis/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial The differences between REST and RPC for APIs, along with some use cases for each approach. Phil Sturgeon [Has Your Rails App Got the Ops Infrastructure it Deserves?](https://www.reinteractive.net/service/ops-care?sid=94) Let us take care of your ops and get your site performing at its best. Our ops team supports your Rails app 24/7 from less than $1 per hour. Fixed price hassle-free ops is what we do best. Reinteractivesponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/14ec77e1.jpg)](https://www.reinteractive.net/service/ops-care?sid=94) [DevOps: A History in 30 Minutes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIkbn2V5A40&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video Nell Shamrell-Harrington takes us on a journey through each stage of the DevOps movement and why things played out the way they did. YouTube [Kong: Open-Source API & Microservice Management](https://getkong.org/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Secure and manage your APIs and Microservices with plugins for auth, logging, rate-limiting, etc. Built on NGINX and written in Lua. Mashape [Reasoning About Performance (In The Context of Search)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80LKF2qph6I&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video Dan Luu, a senior engineer at Microsoft (and formerly Google), shares a lot of great insights into how to think about performance. Bread and butter stuff from a true expert. Dan Luu [CloudFlare Introduces TLS 1.3](https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-tls-1-3/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news TLS 1.3 is a big speed boost for encrypted Web connections. Nick Sullivan looks at how and why. CloudFlare [How to Build A Serverless Node.js Microservice on AWS Lambda](https://medium.freecodecamp.com/building-a-nodejs-microservice-on-aws-lambda-6adb6da53cbb?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial A developer quickly shares his approach to ‘going serverless’ and building a CRUD API with AWS Lambda, API Gateway and DynamoDB. Paul Matthew Jaworski Jobs [WebOps Engineer](https://www.datadoghq.com/careers/detail/?gh_jid=264713) Do you want to be part of one of NYC’s top enterprise startups? Datadog is growing fast, and we’re hiring a Web Ops Engineer to oversee our corporate sites. Datadog [Supplement Your Income Sharing Your AWS & Dev Knowledge on Pluralsight](http://go2.pluralsight.com/C0001187) Pluralsight [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 [Varnish Cache 5.0 Released](http://varnish.org/releases/rel5.0.0.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email#rel5-0-0) news varnish.​org [Oracle Takes Aim At AWS with Cheap, Fast Public and Hybrid Cloud](http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/19/sasa/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news The Register [Announcing the Free NGINX Cookbook Series](https://www.nginx.com/blog/announcing-the-free-nginx-cookbook-series/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news NGINX has partnered up with O’Reilly. NGINX [Oracle Is Gunning for AWS with New Infrastructure Offering](http://www.computerworld.com/article/3121212/cloud-computing/oracle-is-gunning-for-aws-with-new-infrastructure-offering.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Larry Ellison has a message for Amazon Web Services: Oracle will give Amazon a run for its money in the cloud market. Blair Hanley Frank [Google: 53% of Mobile Users Abandon Sites That Take Longer Than 3 Seconds to Load](https://www.soasta.com/blog/google-mobile-web-performance-study/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Tammy Everts [Creating Ocean Networks with Drones That Roam the Seas](http://thenewstack.io/creating-ocean-networks-with-drones-that-roam-the-seas/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news The New Stack [Learn Modern Asynchronous Programming w/ Jed Borovik](https://forwardcourses.com/workshops/1?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Learn how callbacks interact with the event loop & how to use ES7 async functions. Use `weekly2016` for 30% off Forward Coursessponsored [Test-Drive Docker Healthcheck in 10 Mins](http://blog.alexellis.io/test-drive-healthcheck/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Did you know that your Docker container can check-in on itself and let you know whether it’s still functioning as expected? Alex Ellis [How to Set Up a Distributed Elixir Cluster on Amazon EC2](http://engineering.pivotal.io/post/how-to-set-up-an-elixir-cluster-on-amazon-ec2/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial A very easy to follow guide with plenty of detail. Benjamin Tan Wei Hao [dhcplb: Facebook's DHCP Load Balancer](https://github.com/facebookincubator/dhcplb?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Not many people _need_ a DHCP relayer, but Facebook use this in production. Facebook Incubator [How Auth0 Scaled Login Transactions with Bcrypt as a Service](https://auth0.engineering/bcrypt-as-a-service-9e71707bda47?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Damian Schenkelman [All Quiet in the IPv4 Internet?](http://blog.apnic.net/2016/09/15/quiet-ipv4-internet/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story A new study measures 1.2 billion unique IPv4 addresses for a glimpse of what IPv4 usage activity is like. Philipp Richter [How MailChimp Does Performance Testing with SSDs](http://devs.mailchimp.com/blog/performance-testing-with-ssds-part-1/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story MailChimp [What It Costs to Run Let's Encrypt](https://letsencrypt.org/2016/09/20/what-it-costs-to-run-lets-encrypt.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Let's Encrypt [A Whirlwind Tour Through The HTTP2 Spec](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CThgMRXS8w8&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video Ole Michaelis [How CoreOS Tectonic is Streamlining Kubernetes for the Enterprise](http://thenewstack.io/how-coreos-is-streamlining-kubernetes/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video The New Stack [Thoughts on AWS API Gateway](https://medium.com/@peterbsmith/thoughts-on-aws-api-gateway-82c681e85d02?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion It’s not good news, but at least I learnt about Kong. Peter B Smith [CloudFlare’s New WordPress Plugin](https://blog.cloudflare.com/new-wordpress-plugin/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Claims to make your site 60% faster. CloudFlare [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    [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/84) [See our archives](http://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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