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title: "Issue 85: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 85
published_at: "2016-09-28"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/85"
---

WebOps Weekly 85   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/85) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 85 — September 28, 2016     

[What I Wish I Had Known Before Scaling Uber to 1000 Services](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb-m2fasdDY&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video A senior engineer at Uber shares a lot of lessons learnt while scaling up the technology behind the service. _46 minutes_. Matt Ranney [Microsoft Announces General Availability of Windows Server 2016](https://mspoweruser.com/microsoft-announces-the-general-availability-of-windows-server-2016-and-system-center-2016/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Microsoft’s new server operating system is finally here. You might also enjoy learning [top 10 features sysadmins need to know about.](http://www.gfi.com/blog/top-10-features-in-windows-server-2016-sysadmins-need-to-know-about/) Pradeep Viswanathan [How Uber Manages 1M Writes/Second Using Mesos and Cassandra](http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/9/28/how-uber-manages-a-million-writes-per-second-using-mesos-and.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Uber needs to store location data sent out every 30 seconds by both driver and rider apps. It’s built a custom solution on top of Cassandra and Mesos to cope. High Scalability [Free eBook: Why Continuous Integration Is Important](https://resources.codeship.com/ebooks/why-continuous-integration?utm_source=email-sponsorship&utm_medium=cooper-press-why-CI&utm_campaign=webops-weekly-primary) In this eBook, we will walk you through the benefits of Continuous Integration not only from a development team's perspective but also from a business perspective. Codeshipsponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/63d1054e.png)](https://resources.codeship.com/ebooks/why-continuous-integration?utm_source=email-sponsorship&utm_medium=cooper-press-why-CI&utm_campaign=webops-weekly-primary) [Gravitational Teleport: Modern SSH Server for Clusters and Teams](https://github.com/gravitational/teleport?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Intended as a replacement for `sshd` with certificate-based access, 2 factor auth, recording and replaying of sessions, and more. Gravitational Inc [Kubernetes The Hard Way: Setting Up Kubernetes Without Scripts](https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Learn something through bootstrapping Kubernetes the ‘hard way’ on Google Cloud Platform or Amazon EC2 in this thorough guide. Kelsey Hightower [Are DDoS Attacks a Threat to the Decentralised Internet?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79u7bURE6Ss&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video CloudFlare’s Marek Majkowski shows off how they deal with L3 attacks and IP spoofing and why it’s difficult to fight against. _40 minutes._ Marek Majkowski [How Twitter Deploys Its Widget JavaScript](https://blog.twitter.com/2016/how-twitter-deploys-its-widgets-javascript?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story The technical details of how Twitter safely deploys widgets.js to keep things simple for publishers, catch mistakes early, and avoid negative customer impact. Twitter Engineering Jobs [AWS Video Training Author (Freelance, Part-time)](http://go2.pluralsight.com/C0001187) 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 [Kubernetes 1.4 Released](http://blog.kubernetes.io/2016/09/kubernetes-1.4-making-it-easy-to-run-on-kuberentes-anywhere.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Kubernetes [AWS Launches New M4 Instance Type: M4.16xlarge](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/expanding-the-m4-instance-type-new-m4-16xlarge/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news It offers 64 vCPUs, 256GB RAM, and 20Gbps network performance. Amazon [150,000 IoT Devices Behind A 1Tbps DDoS Attack on OVH](http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/51726/cyber-crime/ovh-hit-botnet-iot.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Security Affairs [Introducing Docker for Windows Server 2016](https://blog.docker.com/2016/09/dockerforws2016/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Containers on Windows Server 2016 are powered by Docker. Michael Friis [Find and Fix App Errors Faster (and have fun doing it)](https://rollbar.com/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email-nl&utm_term=webopsweekly_9_27&utm_campaign=nl_sponsorship) tools Quickly pinpoint what’s broken and why. Get the context and insights to defeat all software application errors. ROLLBARsponsored [DevOps from Scratch, Part 1: Vagrant and Ansible](https://www.kevinlondon.com/2016/09/19/devops-from-scratch-pt-1.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Kevin London [Using HTTP/2 for Google App Engine Local Development](https://medium.com/dev-channel/using-http-2-for-app-engine-local-development-e0b0dd6782a4?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Eric Bidelman [Optimizing Optimizing: Insights That Led to A 400% Speedup of PowerDNS](https://medium.com/@bert.hubert/optimizing-optimizing-some-insights-that-led-to-a-400-speedup-of-powerdns-5e1a44b58f1c?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Bert Hubert [A Rare Tour Of Microsoft's Hyperscale Datacenters](http://www.nextplatform.com/2016/09/26/rare-tour-microsofts-hyperscale-datacenters/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Microsoft opened the doors to its Quincy facilities for a lesson in datacenter design. Timothy Prickett Morgan [How CircleCI Uses Rollbar to Level Up Their Continuous Delivery](https://rollbar.com/blog/how-circleci-does-production-error-monitoring/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Rollbar [How Software-Defined Storage Impacts Containers](http://thenewstack.io/stateful-storage-memory-advances-impacting-containers/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) podcast How container storage has evolved over the years, as well as the parallels between VMs and containers when running functions, and how open source is affecting the container landscape. The New Stack [How Qbox Saved 50% per Month on AWS Bills Using Kubernetes and Supergiant](http://blog.kubernetes.io/2016/09/how-qbox-saved-50-percent-on-aws-bills.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story kubernetes.​io [The Zen of High Performance Messaging with NATS](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYrYCt2dTkw&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video _Originally written in Ruby, and then rewritten in Go, a NATS server can now push over 11M messages per second._ Waldemar Quevedo Salinas [Let's Build a CI/CD Pipeline](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAsTNFLGBGI&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video Jean De Klerk [Ask HN: What Are The Best Practises for Using SSH Keys?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12574510&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Hacker News [Distributed Transactions: The 'Icebergs' of Microservices](http://www.grahamlea.com/2016/08/distributed-transactions-microservices-icebergs/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Graham Lea [The Server at 'Peak x86'](http://www.nextplatform.com/2016/09/15/server-peak-x86/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Thoughts (backed by lots of data) that x86 is at its peak in the datacenter. Timothy Prickett Morgan [kenv: Environment File Injector for Kubernetes Resources](https://github.com/thisendout/kenv?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools github.​com [Node.js application performance monitoring](https://opbeat.com/nodejs/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=newsletter) tools See where your app needs optimizing - like queries, cache and http requests - and who wrote the slow code. Opbeatsponsored [Dingo: A Caching DNS Proxy in Go for Google's DNS Over HTTPS](https://github.com/pforemski/dingo?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code It effectively encrypts your DNS traffic. Pawel Foremski [lua-resty-auto-ssl: Let's Encrypt SSL Reg and Renewal Inside NGINX](https://github.com/GUI/lua-resty-auto-ssl?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Seamless free SSL certificates on-the-fly from within NGINX and OpenResty. Nick Muerdter    [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/85) [See our archives](http://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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