---
title: "Issue 9: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 9
published_at: "2015-04-10"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/9"
---

WebOps Weekly 9   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/9) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 9 — April 10, 2015     

[Introducing Vector: Netflix's On-Host Performance Monitoring Tool](http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/04/introducing-vector-netflixs-on-host.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools A browser-based webapp that lets engineers see hand-picked, high-resolution system and application metrics on widget-filled dashboards. The Netflix Tech Blog [Why You Should Use Two DNS Providers](http://www.turbobytes.com/blog/why-use-two-dns-providers/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion A look at how using two different DNS providers can result in lower response times and higher reliability. TurboBytes [Amazon EC2 Container Service Now Generally Available](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-container-service-ready-for-production-use/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A highly scalable container management service that supports Docker containers to run applications on a cluster of EC2 instances. Amazon [Full Stack Container Management As a Service](http://blog.cloud66.com/docker-in-production-from-a-to-z/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=webops&utm_campaign=docker) Everything you need to build, deploy and manage containers in production in one single tool. Cloud 66sponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/8aebe1ff.png)](http://blog.cloud66.com/docker-in-production-from-a-to-z/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=webops&utm_campaign=docker) [Improving Font Performance with Subsetting and Local Storage](http://www.sitepoint.com/improving-font-performance-subsetting-local-storage/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Custom web fonts can have a performance impact on your site, so people are continuing to investigate both caching and subsetting them to speed things up. SitePoint [iSpySpeed.com: A Bulk Page Speed Checker](http://ispyspeed.com/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools A tool primarily aimed at marketers but which runs Google’s PageSpeed Insights against competing sites so you can attempt to outrank them on speed related factors. UpWord [Getting Started with Docker for the Node.js Developer](https://www.airpair.com/node.js/posts/getting-started-with-docker-for-the-nodejs-dev?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) An explanation of what Docker is and why it might be useful to you, followed by a complete walkthrough of setting it up and running a Node app on a Docker container you’ll create. Heitor Tashiro Sergent [How to Test with Internet Explorer on Android, iOS, and Mac OS X](http://www.sitepoint.com/test-internet-explorer-android-ios-mac-os-x/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Rey Bango shows how to use RemoteIE to test sites in IE across multiple platforms. SitePoint Jobs [Operations Engineer at HARVEST](https://www.getharvest.com/careers/operations-engineer?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Harvest is a fun and growing distributed company trusted by well-known businesses around the world to keep track of time, invoices, and projects. We are looking for someone with 5+ years of experience to join our small team. Experience with Ansible, Chef, Docker, MySQL, Unicorn, and a sense of humor are indicative of a potentially great match. Harvest In brief [Chrome Version 42 Starts Marking SHA-1 SSL Certificates As Insecure](https://ma.ttias.be/chrome-version-42-starts-marking-sha-1-ssl-certificates-insecure/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Mattias Geniar [Remotely Sending Chrome and Node.js Into Infinite Loops via a Weird OS X Kernel Bug](https://blog.sandstorm.io/news/2015-04-08-osx-security-bug.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Sandstorm News [Upgrade Insecure Requests: An Editor's Draft](https://w3c.github.io/webappsec/specs/upgrade/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Defines a mechanism to instruct a user agent to upgrade insecure resource requests to a secure transport before fetching them. W3C [Amazon Web Services Unveils 'EFS' (Elastic File System)](http://aws.amazon.com/efs/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) A new file storage service for EC2 based around NFS. A key difference to EBS is that multiple EC2 instances can access a EFS file system at the same time. Amazon [Microsoft Unveils New Container Technologies for the Next Generation Cloud](http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/04/08/microsoft-unveils-new-container-technologies-for-the-next-generation-cloud?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Microsoft Azure Blog [Using azk, ngrok and Containers to Test Webhooks](https://www.airpair.com/javascript/posts/using-azk-ngrok-and-containers-to-test-webhooks?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Heitor Tashiro Sergent [Speed Kills: Decrease Page Load Time and Increase Conversions with Azure CDN](https://blogs.endjin.com/2015/04/speed-kills-decrease-page-load-time-and-increase-conversions-with-azure-cdn/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Pascal Arnould [Peering Through the WebRTC Fog with SocketPeer](https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/04/peering-through-the-webrtc-fog-with-socketpeer/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Mozilla Hacks [A Gentle Guide to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)](https://www.airpair.com/security/posts/a-gentle-guide-to-crosssite-scripting-xss?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Airpair [Etsy's Q1 2015 Site Performance Report](https://codeascraft.com/2015/03/30/q1-2015-site-performance-report/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion The popular peer-to-peer e-commerce site shares a report on their performance, including the results of rolling out HHVM for their internal API. Code as Craft [The Federal HTTPS-Only Standard: Necessary and Overdue](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/the-federal-https-only-standard?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Electronic Frontier Foundation [Dropbox Starts using POST, and Why This Is Poor API Design](http://evertpot.com/dropbox-post-api/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Evert Pot [Limitations of the GET Method in HTTP](https://blogs.dropbox.com/developers/2015/03/limitations-of-the-get-method-in-http/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Dropbox Developer Blog [How Our Solid-State Drives Result in Cost Savings for Customers](http://www.fastly.com/blog/how-our-solid-state-drives-result-in-cost-savings-for-customers/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Fastly [Cachet: An Open Source Status Page System](https://cachethq.io/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Cachet HQ [Netric: ASP.NET Performance Monitoring](http://netric.io/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Netrica    [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/9) [See our archives](http://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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