---
title: "Issue 97: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 97
published_at: "2017-01-04"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/97"
---

WebOps Weekly 97   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/97) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 97 — January 4, 2017     

[Efficient Storage: How Mail.Ru Went From Storing 50 PB to 32 PB](http://highscalability.com/blog/2017/1/2/efficient-storage-how-we-went-down-from-50-pb-to-32-pb.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Russia’s largest free email service wanted to cut costs. This is the in-depth tale of how they freed up 18 petabytes of space with deduplication. High Scalability [Cherami: Uber's Distributed, Highly Available Message Queue System](https://github.com/uber/cherami-server?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools A distributed, scalable, durable, and highly available message queue system built at Uber to transport asynchronous tasks. It’s built in Go. Uber [Cloudflare's 2017 Internet Predictions](https://blog.cloudflare.com/2017-and-the-internet-our-predictions/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Thoughts on DDoS attacks, QUIC, IPv6, mobile traffic, and DNS security. John Graham-Cumming [How to Improve Your Website Performance](https://www.sitespeedbootcamp.com/?utm_source=WebOps&utm_campaign=Q1_2017&utm_medium=sponsored_link) Is sFTP the best protocol for transferring HTTP headers? Imperva Incapsulasponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/b68e7346.png)](https://www.sitespeedbootcamp.com/?utm_source=WebOps&utm_campaign=Q1_2017&utm_medium=sponsored_link) [Speed Index Tips and Tricks](http://calendar.perfplanet.com/2016/speed-index-tips-and-tricks/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Speed Index is a key web performance metric based around page rendering times. Joseph Gannon takes a closer look at working with it. Joseph Gannon [Why The Fuss About Serverless?](https://hackernoon.com/why-the-fuss-about-serverless-4370b1596da0?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Somehow we missed this enjoyable explanation and analysis from a month ago :-) Simon Wardley [DNSimple Introduces Certification Authority Authorization (CAA) Records](https://blog.dnsimple.com/2017/01/introducing-caa-records/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news A DNS record type that indicates to certificate authorities if they should issue certificates for a domain. DNSimple [How and Why The Leap Second Affected Cloudflare DNS](https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-and-why-the-leap-second-affected-cloudflare-dns/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Cloudflare suffered an interesting outage on New Year’s Day following the passing of a leap second added to 2016. Cloudflare [Even Faster Images using HTTP2 and Progressive JPEGs](http://calendar.perfplanet.com/2016/even-faster-images-using-http2-and-progressive-jpegs/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial How to use HTTP2 Server Push along with progressive JPEG scan layers to maximize rendering performance for key images. Tobias Baldauf [View A Site's 'Skeleton' by Resetting All Styling to Default](https://structure.exposed/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools A simple proxy that strips away CSS — a good way to check how your site will behave if styles fail to load. Daniel McLaughlin and Eric Bailey Jobs [Lead Infrastructure Engineer - AWS/Terraform/Docker (Remote First/Bay Area)](https://www.appone.com/MainInfoReq.asp?R_ID=1470114) We're profitable, growing rapidly, and future-proofing with a ground-up build of our long-term infrastructure using microservices hosted on AWS/Terraform/ECS/Docker. Be a founding member. Healthline.​com In brief [NET Core 2.0 Planned for Spring 2017](https://www.infoq.com/news/2016/12/netcore2-spring2017?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news InfoQ [Blue Ocean: A Rethinking of the Jenkins Experience](https://jenkins.io/projects/blueocean/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Jenkins [Complimentary 2-Week Trial to Forward Courses](https://forwardcourses.com/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) Your free trial unlocks access to 28 in-depth workshops on React, Redux, Node, FE DevOps and Async programming Forward Coursessponsored [Using Pipelines to Manage Environments with Infrastructure as Code](https://medium.com/@kief/https-medium-com-kief-using-pipelines-to-manage-environments-with-infrastructure-as-code-b37285a1cbf5?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Kief Morris [Docker is Supported on the $9 C.H.I.P. Computer](https://blog.hypriot.com/post/docker-supported-on-chip-computer/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Docker Pirates [DCCP: The Socket Type You Probably Never Heard of](https://www.anmolsarma.in/post/dccp/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial A transport layer protocol that draws on both TCP and UDP. Anmol Sarma [A Look At Portainer: A UI for Docker](https://media-glass.es/portainer-the-ui-for-docker-d067f6335f23?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Russ Mckendrick [How Shell Oil Is Taking DevOps and Agile to the Cutting Edge](http://thenewstack.io/shell-gives-new-meaning-devops-agile-scale/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story The New Stack [The Rise and Fall of the Gopher Protocol](https://www.minnpost.com/business/2016/08/rise-and-fall-gopher-protocol?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story A fascinating (and long) story from the Internet of the 1990s. MinnPost [The Hidden Costs of Data Engineering](https://www.vividcortex.com/resources/hidden-costs-of-data-engineering?utm_campaign=WebOps%20Weekly&utm_source=ppc) Managing databases in today's environments presents many complex problems. See the impact in this 2016 survey. VividCortexsponsored [Making A Cheap Scalable Image Server with AWS](https://claudiajs.com/tutorials/image-server.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video Gojko Adzic [Gone in 60 Milliseconds: How Serverless Services Can Be Attacked](https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-7865-gone_in_60_milliseconds?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video C3TV [AWS Snowmobile: Massive Exabyte-Scale Data Transfer Service](https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools It’s basically a 45 foot long shipping container. Amazon Web Services, Inc.​ [simplehttp2server: A Simple HTTP/2 Server for Development](https://github.com/GoogleChrome/simplehttp2server?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Google [unpkg: A Fast, Global CDN for Things Published to npm](https://unpkg.com/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Michael Jackson [A Table of AWS Inter-Region Latency](https://www.cloudping.co/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Matt Adorjan [Ofelia: A Docker Job Scheduler (aka crontab for Docker)](https://github.com/mcuadros/ofelia?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Máximo Cuadros [awslambdaproxy: An AWS Lambda-Powered HTTP(s)/SOCKS Web Proxy](https://github.com/dan-v/awslambdaproxy?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Dan Vittegleo    [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/97) [See our archives](http://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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