---
title: "Issue 86: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 86
published_at: "2016-10-05"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/86"
---

WebOps Weekly 86   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/86) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 86 — October 5, 2016     

[Resolving Web Application Resource Bottlenecks with Concurrency](https://blog.phusion.nl/2016/09/27/resolving-resource-bottlenecks/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial A general introduction into the bottlenecks of webapps and how app servers can deal with them to improve request throughput and response times. Phusion Blog [Reshaping Web Defenses with Strict Content Security Policy](https://security.googleblog.com/2016/09/reshaping-web-defenses-with-strict.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Google has released [CSP Evaluator](https://csp-evaluator.withgoogle.com/), a tool used by engineers at Google to visualize the effect of setting content security policies to detect subtle misconfigurations. Google [The Impact of Let's Encrypt on the SSL Certificate Market](https://w3techs.com/blog/entry/the_impact_of_lets_encrypt_on_the_ssl_certificate_market?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Now used by 3% of all sites but issuing 13% of all new certs, Let’s Encrypt is having a major impact. Matthias Gelbmann [Centrally Manage Server Tools: Monitoring, Management, Logs, Security](http://www.intigua.com?utm_campaign=WebOps%20Weekly%202016-10&utm_content=homepage&utm_medium=newsletter-ad&utm_source=WebOps) Automatically deploy, configure, troubleshoot, reinstall, clean up and upgrade server tool agents at scale Intiguasponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/85273c52.jpg)](http://www.intigua.com?utm_campaign=WebOps%20Weekly%202016-10&utm_content=homepage&utm_medium=newsletter-ad&utm_source=WebOps) [An Overview of TLS 1.3](https://blog.cloudflare.com/tls-1-3-overview-and-q-and-a/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video A 30 minute talk given at Cloudflare about the latest version of TLS, how it works, and why it’s faster and safer than what came before. Filippo Valsorda [Electrode: A Universal React + Node App Platform](http://www.electrode.io/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Walmart has open sourced the React + Node-based platform that powers Walmart.com (which sees 80M monthly visits and 10k requests per second). It focuses on performance, component resuability and simple deployment. More in their [introductory blog post](https://medium.com/walmartlabs/introducing-electrode-an-open-source-release-from-walmartlabs-14b836135319). Alex Grigoryan [Next Generation Server-Side Compression With Brotli](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/10/next-generation-server-compression-with-brotli/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Get hands-on with Brotli by creating a Node-powered HTTP server that implements this new(ish) compression algorithm and compare its performance to gzip. Jeremy Wagner [Web Performance Secrets from the BBC](https://medium.com/net-magazine/web-performance-secrets-from-the-bbc-d4b01f869752?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Jamie Knight reveals the techniques the BBC uses to speed up its site and help users flow across their sites. net magazine Jobs [Site Reliability Engineer](http://careers.leadpages.net/apply/YN38C7/Site-Reliability-Engineer?source=WebOps+Weekly) Come and help build out and manage our cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines, create and support tooling for centralized logging, monitoring and alerting, and develop a strong familiarity with our overall architecture. Leadpages [The Most Efficient Way of Finding a New Job.](http://hired.com/?utm_source=newsletters&utm_medium=petercooperpress&utm_campaign=q4-16-webopsweekly) Why job hunt like it's the '90s? Try Hired today to get in front of thousands of innovative companies. Hired In brief [Docker for Java Developers, a New Free E-book](https://www.nginx.com/blog/ebook-docker-for-java-developers/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news NGINX and O'Reilly Media [EC2 Improves Reserved Instances with Convertible RIs and 'Regional Benefit'](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-reserved-instance-update-convertible-ris-and-regional-benefit/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Convertible RIs let you change the instance family associated with a reserved instance at any time. Amazon [Join Google for Polymer Summit 2016 via Livestream on 17-18 October](https://services.google.com/fb/forms/pol2016/) event Featuring 2 days of talks on Polymer, Web Components, Progressive Web Apps, & the future of the mobile web Google Inc.​ sponsored [A Service Mesh for Kubernetes, Part 1: Top-Line Service Metrics](https://blog.buoyant.io/2016/10/04/a-service-mesh-for-kubernetes-part-i-top-line-service-metrics/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Alex Leong [How to Deploy Django with Docker](https://www.stavros.io/posts/how-deploy-django-docker/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Stavros Korokithakis ['I just want to run a container!'](http://jvns.ca/blog/2016/10/02/i-just-want-to-run-a-container/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Julia Evans [Running Stateful Applications in Kubernetes: Storage Provisioning and Allocation](http://thenewstack.io/strategies-running-stateful-applications-kubernetes-persistent-volumes-claims/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial The New Stack [Tuning AWS SQS Job Queues](http://blog.simontaranto.com/post/2016-09-25-tuning-aws-sqs.html/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Simon Taranto [Optimizing Parallel HTTP Request Batches](https://blog.garage-coding.com/2016/10/03/optimizing-parallel-request-batches.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Improving run time of HTTP requests run in batches by reordering and building the batches using stored timing information from previous runs. Stefan Petrea [Starting A Jenkins Multi-Branch Pipeline Build From A Bitbucket Commit](https://alexbilbie.com/2016/09/jenkins-multibranch-pipeline-build-bitbucket-commit?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Alex Bilbie [How We Brought HTTPS Everywhere to The Cloud](https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-we-brought-https-everywhere-to-the-cloud-part-1/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Cloudflare [A Survival Guide for Containerizing Your Infrastructure — Part 1: Why Switch?](https://medium.com/google-cloud/a-survival-guide-for-containerizing-your-infrastructure-part-1-why-switch-8e8dee9fc66?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Austin Cooley [How Red Hat Sees Containers as an Abstraction and What That Means](http://thenewstack.io/red-hat-sees-containers-abstraction-means/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) podcast The New Stack [Caching at Netflix: The Hidden Microservice](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rzdxgx3RC0Q&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video Scott Mansfield [5 Problems with Docker Swarm](http://blog.runnable.com/post/151334076901/5-problems-with-docker-swarm?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Anand Patel [Designing a Scalable Deployment Pipeline](https://spin.atomicobject.com/2016/09/23/scalable-deployment-pipeline/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion _“Use GitHub + Heroku + CircleCI unless you have a really good reason not to.”_ Micah Alles [Three Facts About Container Adoption You Don’t Know](https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/3-facts-about-container-adoption-you-dont-know?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Abby Kearns [DevOps for Startups](https://medium.com/@larsfronius/devops-for-startups-b7fadd54c1b2?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion _“Making sure constantly you can always obtain a systemic view and trying to get the system as resilient as possible while increasing development velocity and innovation is the essence of DevOps to me.”_ Lars Fronius [So You've Been Paged: A Guide to Incident Response (For Those Who Hate Being Paged)](http://blog.scalyr.com/2016/09/so-youve-been-paged/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) How to handle an incident the right way: How to fix immediate problems, and how to grow from the experience and set your team up for smooth sailing in the future. Rick Cusick [Understand your users.](http://www.launchbit.com/taz/11160-6607-111) tools Running a complex app? Record, analyze & watch live sessions of your users Jaco Analyticssponsored    [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/86) [See our archives](http://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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