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title: "Issue 87: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 87
published_at: "2016-10-12"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/87"
---

WebOps Weekly 87   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/87) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 87 — October 12, 2016     

[A Practical, Open Guide to Amazon Web Services](https://github.com/open-guides/og-aws?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Navigating the AWS ecosystem can be complicated, but even in an in-progress early draft form, this multi-author open guide could be very handy. Open Guides ['High Performance Images' Book from Akamai & O'Reilly](http://www.afast.site/2016/10/10/high-performance-images-book-from-akamai-oreilly/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Akamai Technologies and O’Reilly Media have published _High Performance Images: Shrink, Load and Deliver Images for Speed_. It’s available for free for a limited time. Henri Helvetica [Join Google for Polymer Summit 2016 via Livestream on 17-18 October](https://services.google.com/fb/forms/pol2016/) Google’s Polymer Summit will feature two days of talks on Polymer, Web Components, Progressive Web Apps, and the future of the mobile web. All sessions will be livestreamed from [our website](https://www.polymer-project.org/summit) on 17 and 18 October. Please [sign up here](https://services.google.com/fb/forms/pol2016/) to learn more. Google Inc.​ sponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/8bfb2f9a.png)](https://services.google.com/fb/forms/pol2016/) [How DreamHost Builds Its Cloud: Selecting Hard Drives](https://www.dreamhost.com/blog/2016/10/01/dreamhost-builds-cloud-selecting-hard-drives/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story How DreamHost, one of the largest shared hosting providers, chooses which hard drives to use in its systems. DreamHost [In The UK, Running A Blog Over HTTPS Is 'Terrorism', Says Scotland Yard](https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2016/10/uk-running-blog-https-now-act-terrorism-says-scotland-yard/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news In a bizarre case, Scotland Yard is accusing a person for six acts of preparing ‘terrorism’ which include ‘researching encryption’ and developing an ‘encrypted version’ of his blog. Rick Falkvinge Jobs [Site Reliability Engineer at Leadpages](http://careers.leadpages.net/apply/YN38C7/Site-Reliability-Engineer?source=WebOps+Weekly) Come and help build out and manage our cloud infrastructure (on Kubernetes) and deployment pipelines, create and support tooling for centralized logging, monitoring and alerting, and help guide our overall architecture. Leadpages [Don't love your job? You Should - Try Hired and Find the Right Fit.](http://hired.com/?utm_source=newsletters&utm_medium=petercooperpress&utm_campaign=q4-16-webopsweekly) On Hired companies apply to interview you. Get 1:1 support for your job search + upfront compensation details. Hired In brief [Amazon EC2 Gets New 16XLarge X1 Instance (976GB memory, 2TB SSD)](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/10/introducing-new-amazon-ec2-c1-instance-size-x1-16xlarge-and-expansion-of-x1-instances-to-new-regions/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Amazon [AWS CloudFront, WAF and S3 Transfer Acceleration Now All Have IPv6 Support](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ipv6-support-update-cloudfront-waf-and-s3-transfer-acceleration/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Amazon [France to Get Its Own AWS Region in Paris in 2017](http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2016/09/aws-announce-eu-france-region.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Werner Vogels [CloudFlare Announces New Features to Help Providers Run Reliable DNS Infrastructure](https://blog.cloudflare.com/virtual-dns-just-got-better/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Cloudflare Blog [Chrome Dev Summit 2016](https://developer.chrome.com/devsummit?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Chrome Dev Summit 2016 will take place in San Francisco, this Nov 10-11. Join Chrome VP Darin Fisher for two days of talks from the Chrome team. Register now with code WEBOPSWEEKLY. Google [Getting Started with Ansible](https://gorillalogic.com/blog/getting-started-with-ansible/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial This is a crash course on deploying a Rails app from scratch using Ansible. José Hidalgo [AWS IO Performance: What’s Bottlenecking Me Now?](http://engineering.theladders.com/2016/10/10/aws-io-performance-whats-bottlenecking-now/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Ladders Engineering [Optimizing Amazon S3 for High Concurrency in Distributed Workloads](http://blogs.aws.amazon.com/bigdata/post/Tx1LW6GXF0YZPMB/Optimizing-Amazon-S3-for-High-Concurrency-in-Distributed-Workloads?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Aaron Friedman [A Checklist for Docker in the Enterprise](https://medium.com/zwischenzugs/a-checklist-for-docker-in-the-enterprise-d69f2ae3091b?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Ian Miell [Tuning NGINX Behind the Google Cloud Platform HTTP(S) Load Balancer](https://blog.percy.io/tuning-nginx-behind-google-cloud-platform-http-s-load-balancer-305982ddb340?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email#.xksh33mjb) tutorial Mike Fotinakis [Docker Gotchas](http://sosedoff.com/2016/10/05/docker-gotchas.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Dan Sosedoff [Learn 9 Personas Threatening All Web Applications – Read Here.](https://vault.stackpath.com/threat-landscape-for-startups-white-paper/?utm_source=coopermedia&utm_campaign=coop_whitepaper&utm_medium=email) All companies are vulnerable to web app attacks, especially startups. Protection starts w/ holistic security. StackPathsponsored [Say Cheese: A Snapshot of the DDoS Attacks Coming From IoT Cameras](https://blog.cloudflare.com/say-cheese-a-snapshot-of-the-massive-ddos-attacks-coming-from-iot-cameras/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Cloudflare [The Story of EV-SSL, AWS and Trailing Dot Domains](https://labs.detectify.com/2016/10/05/the-story-of-ev-ssl-aws-and-trailing-dot-domains/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Detectify Labs [How a cron Bug Became the De-Facto Standard](https://treats.wdt.io/cron-bug.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Christian Pekeler [Ask Hacker News: What are Good Alternatives to AWS?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12621716&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Some extensive discussion. Hacker News [Why I Believe GraphQL Will Come to Replace REST](https://dev.to/reactiveconf/why-i-believe-graphql-will-come-to-replace-rest?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Martijn Walraven [Online Training on Website Performance](https://www.sitespeedbootcamp.com) Get the technical knowledge and skills to accelerate your website and optimize content delivery Imperva Incapsulasponsored [KCluster: Deploy a Hosted Kubernetes Cluster on AWS in Minutes](https://kcluster.io/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools kcluster.​io [ResinOS: Run Docker Containers on Embedded Devices](https://resinos.io/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools resin.​io [sslh: An SSL/SSH Multiplexer](http://www.rutschle.net/tech/sslh.shtml?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Want to run SSH, XMPP, and HTTPS all over the same port? This makes it possible. rutschle.​net [Yarn: A New Package Manager for JavaScript](https://code.facebook.com/posts/1840075619545360?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools With Yarn, engineers have access to the npm registry while operating faster, more securely, and more reliably. Facebook [kube-cert-manager: Manage Lets Encrypt certificates for a Kubernetes cluster.](https://github.com/PalmStoneGames/kube-cert-manager?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Palm Stone Games [Infrakit: A Toolkit for Creating and Managing Declarative, Self-Healing Infrastructure](https://github.com/docker/infrakit?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Docker    [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/87) [See our archives](http://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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