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title: "Issue 95: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 95
published_at: "2016-12-14"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/95"
---

WebOps Weekly 95   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/95) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 95 — December 14, 2016     

[Testing with Realistic Networking Conditions](http://calendar.perfplanet.com/2016/testing-with-realistic-networking-conditions/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial A look at a variety of approaches and tools for testing Web sites using network conditions end users are likely to experience. Patrick Meenan [containerd: An Open Container Runtime from Docker](https://github.com/docker/containerd/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools An industry-standard container runtime with an emphasis on simplicity, robustness and portability. [More details](https://blog.docker.com/2016/12/containerd-core-runtime-component/). Docker [Conductor: A Microservices Orchestrator from Netflix](https://netflix.github.io/conductor/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools An orchestration engine open sourced by Netflix whose behavior is defined via a JSON DSL, that can manage processes, and scale to millions of concurrently running process flows. [Repo](https://github.com/Netflix/conductor) and [more info.](http://techblog.netflix.com/2016/12/netflix-conductor-microservices.html) Netflix [Database Performance Monitoring Buyers Guide](https://www.vividcortex.com/resources/database-performance-monitoring-buyers-guide?utm_campaign=WebOps%20Weekly&utm_source=ppc) This buyer’s guide is designed to help you understand what database management really requires, so your investments in a solution provide the greatest possible ultimate value. [Download now](https://www.vividcortex.com/resources/database-performance-monitoring-buyers-guide?utm_campaign=WebOps%20Weekly&utm_source=ppc). VividCortexsponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/a131415d.png)](https://www.vividcortex.com/resources/database-performance-monitoring-buyers-guide?utm_campaign=WebOps%20Weekly&utm_source=ppc) [Kubernetes 1.5: Supporting Production Workloads](http://blog.kubernetes.io/2016/12/kubernetes-1.5-supporting-production-workloads.html?m=1&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news The container automation, deployment and scaling tool takes a key step forward and continues to grow. Aparna Sinha [Amazon Opens New London, UK AWS Region](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-open-aws-london-region/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news It supports the main services out of the gate (e.g. CloudWatch, EC2, S3, RDS) and meets several UK standards. Amazon [Building and Scaling The Fastly Network: Balancing Requests](https://www.fastly.com/blog/building-and-scaling-fastly-network-part-2-balancing-requests?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story A significant amount of detail on how Fastly’s load balancing system works written by three of their engineers. Fastly [AWS Managed Services: Ops Management for the Enterprise](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-managed-services-infrastructure-operations-management-for-the-enterprise/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Only available in select regions and unlikely to be cheap, this is aimed at the highest end of AWS customers. Amazon Jobs [Site Reliability Engineer, Santa Barbara County](https://boards.greenhouse.io/procore/jobs/188292?gh_src=hs5d4k1#.WD1ak6KLSV4) We are a team of builders; crafting and coding a platform to delight over a million users. We work in big database services to small instances on AWS, manage millions of documents & 25,000 database transactions a second. procore [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) Try Hired today to get multiple job offers and free personalized support in planning your next move. Hired In brief [CoreOS Offers Self-Hosting Kubernetes with New Tectonic Release](http://thenewstack.io/coreos-offers-self-hosting-kubernetes-new-tectonic-release/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news The New Stack [Lightweight Docker Images in 5 Steps](https://semaphoreci.com/blog/2016/12/13/lightweight-docker-images-in-5-steps.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Igor Šarčević [Do Not Ignore .dockerignore](https://medium.com/@alexeiled/do-not-ignore-dockerignore-47f5fb67b448?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Reduce image size, speed up builds, and avoid unintended exposure. Alexei Ledenev [Kubernetes Load Balancing with NGINX and NGINX Plus Ingress Controllers](https://www.nginx.com/blog/nginx-plus-ingress-controller-kubernetes-load-balancing/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial NGINX [Free eBook: Testing and Deploying Docker Apps with Elastic Beanstalk](https://resources.codeship.com/ebooks/test-deploy-docker-apps-aws-elastic-beankstalk-ebs-aw/?utm_source=email-sponsorship&utm_medium=cpc-webops-weekly-secondary&utm_campaign=cooper-docker-elastic-beanstalk) tutorial Learn how to prepare Elastic Beanstalk for Docker, how to build and push your Docker images to Docker Hub, and how to test and deploy your app to EBS with Codeship. Codeshipsponsored [3 Clear Trends in ECS Adoption](https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/3-clear-trends-in-ecs-adoption/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story _“ECS is quietly, steadily gaining steam”_ John Matson [A Proposed Server Purchase for GitLab.com](https://about.gitlab.com/2016/12/11/proposed-server-purchase-for-gitlab-com/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Sid Sijbrandij [Saving The Internet 2000 Terabytes A Day: Fixing Font Awesome's Fonts](https://pixelambacht.nl/2016/font-awesome-fixed/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story _“With Font Awesome being used on 73 million websites now, every byte matters.”_ Roel Nieskens [Microservices: When Micro Becomes Nano](http://apmblog.dynatrace.com/2016/11/07/micro-services-when-micro-becomes-nano/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Steven Ledoux [How Discord Handles Push Request Bursts of > 1 Million Per Minute with Elixir](https://discord.engineering/how-discord-handles-push-request-bursts-of-over-a-million-per-minute-with-elixirs-genstage-8f899f0221b4?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email#.8h8len12z) story Jesse Howarth [Price Breakdown of AWS Lightsail vs DigitalOcean, VULTR and Linode](https://gist.github.com/justjanne/205cc548148829078d4bf2fd394f50ae?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email#file-price-md) opinion Compares only memory, cores, storage and transfer so YMMV. GitHub [Microservices? Please, Don't](https://dzone.com/articles/microservices-please-dont?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Microservices are a common aspirational pattern today. However, Sean Kelly argues maybe they shouldn’t be. DZone Integration [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_12_14&utm_campaign=nl_sponsorship) tools Quickly pinpoint what’s broken and why. Get the context and insights to defeat all Node errors. ROLLBARsponsored [TLD List: Compare, Sort, and Filter Domain TLDs](https://tld-list.com/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Tim White [Snapt: A Commercial HAProxy User Interface with Reports and GUI](https://www.snapt.net/products/snaptha/welcome?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools snapt.​net [Ably Adapters Unite Realtime Protocols to Speed Up Development](https://blog.ably.io/ably-adapters-unite-realtime-protocols-to-speed-up-development-a37c290062e7?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Realtime data delivery platform Ably unites Ably, Pusher, PubNub, AMQP, and STOMP. Ashley Friedlein [Botella: Build a Chat Bot with Docker Plugins](https://agonzalezro.github.io/botella/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Flexible and uses Docker containers for plugins so you can build them however you like. agonzalezro.​github.​io [sheets-api: Create A REST API Backed by Google Sheets](https://github.com/DataFire-flows/sheets-api?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code The API can be easily run on AWS Lambda with API Gateway. DataFire Flows [Kubeless: Proof of Concept Serverless Framework for Kubernetes](https://github.com/skippbox/kubeless?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Skippbox [konfd: Manage App Configs using Kubernetes Secrets, Configmaps & Go Templates](https://github.com/kelseyhightower/konfd?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Kelsey Hightower    [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/95) [See our archives](http://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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