---
title: "Issue 88: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 88
published_at: "2016-10-19"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/88"
---

WebOps Weekly 88   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/88) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 88 — October 19, 2016     

[Airbnb on Unlocking Horizontal Scalability in Their Web Serving Tier](https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/unlocking-horizontal-scalability-in-our-web-serving-tier-d907449cdbcf?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Airbnb’s main webapp uses Rails, Java, and MySQL. This article covers how they operate it at scale. Liang Guo [Lessons Learned from Scaling Uber's Technology](http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/10/12/lessons-learned-from-scaling-uber-to-2000-engineers-1000-ser.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story .. up to 2000 engineers, 1000 services, and 8000 Git repos. A look at how Uber uses microservices, numerous programming languages, and RPCs, and how they deal with performance issues. High Scalability [Chaos Monkey 2.0 Released by Netflix](http://techblog.netflix.com/2016/10/netflix-chaos-monkey-upgraded.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Chaos Monkey is a popular ‘chaos engineering’ tool that randomly terminates VMs and containers inside your production environment to help you build resilient services. Netflix [Join Firebase Dev Summit 2016 in Berlin on Nov. 7th](https://events.withgoogle.com/firebase-dev-summit/) Firebase Dev Summit is a full-day event for app developers. Come meet the Firebase team, be the first to hear our exciting launches, and learn about Firebase through a mix of deep-dive sessions, office hours, and self-paced codelabs. Google Inc.​ sponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/84821ff7.png)](https://events.withgoogle.com/firebase-dev-summit/) [Pregenerating Static Web Pages for Better Performance](https://blog.codeship.com/pregenerating-static-web-pages-for-better-performance/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Increase a web application’s performance by pre-generating the results of “dynamic” pages and saving those results into a file cache. Ben Cane [Building a Website Performance Monitor](https://css-tricks.com/building-website-performance-monitor/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial How Eduardo Bouças built [SpeedTracker](https://speedtracker.org/), an open-source service that runs on top of WebPageTest to build up and visualize web page performance metrics over time. CSS Tricks [EC2Instances.info: Easy Comparison of Amazon EC2 Instance Types](http://www.ec2instances.info/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools See memory, compute units, and pricing in a sortable table. ec2instances.​info [So You're Thinking of Decomposing Your Monolith into Microservices](https://blog.codeship.com/so-youre-thinking-of-decomposing-your-monolith-into-microservices/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Decomposing a monolith into microservices is a long-term investment that can take a while to yield dividends. Here are a few common themes to watch for. Taylor Jones 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 [Modern Job Hunting for the Busy - Try Hired](http://hired.com/?utm_source=newsletters&utm_medium=petercooperpress&utm_campaign=q4-16-webopsweekly) You're on the cutting edge of technology, why job hunt like it's the 90s? Try Hired today and have 4,000+ top companies apply for the chance to interview you. Hired In brief [New AWS US East (Ohio) Region Open](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-open-aws-us-east-ohio-region/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Amazon [Facebook's 100 GbE Wedge Switch Makes Strides](http://www.networkcomputing.com/data-centers/facebooks-100-gbe-wedge-switch-makes-strides/1623466627?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Network Computing [LXD Is Now Available in the Ubuntu Snap Store](https://www.stgraber.org/2016/10/17/lxd-snap-available/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Includes an explanation of what ‘snaps’ are and why they’re being used here. Stéphane Graber [CoreOS Acquires Redspread, a ‘Git for Kubernetes’](http://thenewstack.io/coreos-acquires-redspread-git-kubernetes/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news tools The New Stack [IBM Challenges Amazon S3 with Cloud Object Store](https://www.datanami.com/2016/10/12/ibm-challenges-amazon-s3-cloud-object-store/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Alex Woodie [Google and Facebook Are Building The Fastest Trans-Pacific Cable Yet](https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/12/google-and-facebook-are-building-the-fastest-trans-pacific-cable-yet/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news A 120 terabit per second cable between LA and Hong Kong. TechCrunch [Why LTE Has Slowed by 50% in the US This Year](http://twinprime.com/lte-has-slowed-by-50-in-the-us/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Usage levels are outpacing infrastructure improvements. Twin Prime [Free eBook: Turning Your App into Separate Containers for Better CI/CD](https://resources.codeship.com/ebooks/better-ci-cd-with-containers-aw?utm_source=email-sponsorship&utm_medium=cpc-webops-weekly-secondary&utm_campaign=cooper-press-turn-app-containers) tutorial In this eBook, we take a look at optimizing the time it takes to test and deploy the open-source Laravel Framework project and using parallelization to speed up your test suite. Codeshipsponsored [Using Yarn with Docker](https://medium.com/@mfornasa/using-yarn-with-docker-c116ad289d56?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial How to use Yarn with Docker for Node.js development and deployment. Martino Fornasa [Java APIs on AWS Lambda: Serverless and the Real Baggage](https://www.credera.com/blog/mobile-applications-and-web/java-apis-on-aws-lambda-serverless-and-the-real-baggage/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story A walkthrough of a few obstacles and shortcomings to be aware when running Java on AWS Lambda and ways to overcome them. Dustin Talk [The Technology Behind A Low Latency Cloud Gaming Service](https://blog.parsec.tv/description-of-parsec-technology-b2738dcc3842?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story An AWS AMI for streaming PC games at extremely low latency and 60 FPS. Parsec [How Google Helps Humans Scale Kubernetes](http://tapes.scalevp.com/software-dreams-community-sarah-novotny-google-kubernetes/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Google’s Sarah Novotny manages Kubernetes’ community efforts. Sarah Novotny [Linux Benchmarks for Server Side Swift vs Node.js](https://medium.com/@rymcol/linux-ubuntu-benchmarks-for-server-side-swift-vs-node-js-db52b9f8270b?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Ryan Collins [Seven (More) Deadly Sins of Microservices](http://thenewstack.io/seven-deadly-sins-microservices/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion The New Stack [Run Kubernetes on a Mac with Kube Solo](https://deis.com/blog/2016/run-kubernetes-on-a-mac-with-kube-solo/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Deis [Auto-generated REST APIs from any database](https://www.dreamfactory.com/demo?utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=2-3) tools Version 2.3 of DreamFactory’s powerful open source API automation platform brings major enhancements to speed, caching, and versatility. Free demo. DreamFactorysponsored [smallest-docker-httpd: A 436 Byte HTTP Serving Container](https://github.com/sigmonsays/smallest-docker-httpd?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code The response to a challenge posed on Reddit. Sig    [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/88) [See our archives](http://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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