---
title: "Issue 93: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 93
published_at: "2016-11-30"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/93"
---

WebOps Weekly 93   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/93) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 93 — November 30, 2016     

[HPACK: The Silent Killer (Feature) of HTTP/2](https://blog.cloudflare.com/hpack-the-silent-killer-feature-of-http-2/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial An overview of the reasons for the development of HPACK header compression and the hidden bandwidth and latency benefits it brings. Cloudflare Blog [Performance Tuning HAProxy](https://blog.codeship.com/performance-tuning-haproxy/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial A look at some performance-tuning concepts and a walk through tuning options for HAProxy when installing and configuring it as a load balancer. Ben Cane [Webhook Tester: Easily Test Webhooks and Other Types of HTTP Requests](http://webhook.site/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools An online tool that creates disposable URLs to which requests are logged. webhook.​site [Is Your Redis Using Too Much Memory?](http://www.redisgreen.net/8/index.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2016c&utm_content=primary&utm_term=too_much_memory) RedisMonitor reduces Redis memory usage and saves money by finding large keys, memory leaks, and more. No credit card is required to try it out. Redisgreensponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/7cc9f769.png)](http://www.redisgreen.net/8/index.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2016c&utm_content=primary&utm_term=too_much_memory) [Google Cloud is '50% Cheaper' Than AWS](https://thehftguy.com/2016/11/18/google-cloud-is-50-cheaper-than-aws/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion An attempt at comparing two of the largest cloud providers on their relative costs. Google appears to come out ahead. The HFT Guy [Kontena 1.0 Released: A Container and Microservices Platform](http://blog.kontena.io/kontena-1-0/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Kontena is an open source full-stack solution including all the functionality you need to run apps packaged as Docker containers in production. Kontena Blog [Syscall Auditing at Scale](https://slack.engineering/syscall-auditing-at-scale-e6a3ca8ac1b8?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial The security operations team at Slack has built [a tool](https://github.com/slackhq/go-audit) to replace Linux’s auditd for better monitoring of Linux servers in production. Ryan Huber [How GitLab Knew It Was Time to Leave the Cloud](https://about.gitlab.com/2016/11/10/why-choose-bare-metal/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story A look at how GitLab is scaling and why moving away from cloud providers was necessary to get the performance they required. GitLab [Tera: A High-Perf Distributed NoSQL Database](https://github.com/baidu/tera/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code A project from Baidu billed as ‘an Internet-scale database’ inspired by Google’s BigTable and designed for real-time applications working at up to petabyte scale. Baidu [AWS Organizations: Centrally Manage Multiple AWS Accounts](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/announcing-aws-organizations-centrally-manage-multiple-aws-accounts/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Amazon has unveiled a new way for you to centrally manage all the AWS accounts your organization owns. Amazon Web Services [Real Talk about HTTPS](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP75a1Y9saY&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video A look at the use of HTTPS on the Web, why you should be using it more, and what Google is doing to push things forward. Emily Schechter [Service Wizard: Build a Node Microservice in Seconds](https://stdlib.com/wizard?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Build and deploy a JavaScript-powered microservice from your browser. Stdlib Jobs [Site Reliability Engineer, NYT Beta at The New York Times](http://www.nytco.com/careers/technology/) Our goal is to build and maintain tools used by developers and engineers in product development and delivery. Join the team responsible for creating the various systems we use to operate the NYT in a reliable manner. The New York Times [Want Multiple Job Offers? - Try Hired](http://hired.com/?utm_source=newsletters&utm_medium=petercooperpress&utm_campaign=q4-16-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 In brief [Docker and Canonical Partner on CS Docker Engine](https://www.docker.com/docker-news-and-press/docker-and-canonical-partner-cs-docker-engine-millions-ubuntu-users?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Stable maintained releases of Docker will be published by Docker as snap packages on Ubuntu. Docker [State of the Serverless Community Survey Results](https://serverless.com/blog/state-of-serverless-community/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news AWS Lambda takes 96% of the market so far. Serverless [SAP Tests Kubernetes for Cloud-Native Enterprise Software Deployments](http://thenewstack.io/sap-bringing-multi-site-microservices-enterprise-kubernetes/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news The New Stack [The Healthcare Industry Is Rapidly Adopting DreamFactory](http://blog.dreamfactory.com/the-healthcare-industry-is-rapidly-adopting-dreamfactory) news Learn how the DreamFactory REST API service platform is being used by the Healthcare Industry, and get inspired with some recent customer examples. DreamFactorysponsored [Creating A Cache-Aware HTTP/2 Server Push Mechanism](https://css-tricks.com/cache-aware-server-push/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Learn how to create a cache-aware HTTP/2 server push mechanism using a back-end language and cookies. Jeremy Wagner [An S3 Static Site with SSL and Automatic Deploys using Travis](https://laszlo.nu/2016/11/25/s3-static-site.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial André Laszlo [Manually Testing SSL/TLS Weaknesses - 2016 Edition](https://www.contextis.com/resources/blog/manually-testing-ssltls-weaknesses-2016-edition/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Michael Skiba [How to Make Your Database 200x Faster Without Having to Pay More?](http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/11/28/how-to-make-your-database-200x-faster-without-having-to-pay.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story A look at producing faster ‘almost perfect’ answers in analytics/BI scenarios. High Scalability [HTTP/2: What, Where, Why and When?](https://pusher.com/sessions/meetup/front-end-london/http2-what-where-why-and-when?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video Patrick Hamann [Ignite: Ansible Wizardry 101](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph1lFA2GqBw&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video This talk covers the basics of Ansible, a powerful IT automation tool, and how you can harness it in your team. _6 minutes_ Ashmita Sarma [Serverless Architecture in Short](https://specify.io/concepts/serverless-baas-faas?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion _“Why PaaS and Docker might not be useful anymore.”_ Oliver Wolf [Find and Fix Node.js Errors Faster (and have fun doing it)](https://rollbar.com/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email-nl&utm_term=webopsweekly_11_30&utm_campaign=nl_sponsorship) tools Quickly pinpoint what’s broken and why. Get the context and insights to defeat all Node errors. ROLLBARsponsored [An XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) Game](https://xss-game.appspot.com/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Learn about cross-site scripting vulnerabilities and perform a few of your own to progress through the challenges. Google [Lambdoku: A Heroku-Like Experience When Using AWS Lambda](https://github.com/kubek2k/lambdoku?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Jakub Janczak [Scout2: Security Auditing Tool for AWS Environments](https://github.com/nccgroup/Scout2?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools NCC Group Plc [Wayback Machine Downloader: Download An Entire Site from Wayback Machine](https://github.com/hartator/wayback-machine-downloader?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code hartator [Redis Docker: A Ready-to-Use Redis Environment on Docker](https://github.com/TimTosi/mechanist/tree/master/redis?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Timothee Tosi    [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/93) [See our archives](http://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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