--- title: "Issue 98: The latest Web operations, scaling, and performance news" publication: "StatusCode Weekly" issue: 98 published_at: "2017-01-11" canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/98" --- WebOps Weekly 98 . The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/98) [![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](http://webopsweekly.com) Issue 98 — January 11, 2017 [How Stack Overflow Plans to Survive The Next DNS Attack](http://blog.serverfault.com/2017/01/09/surviving-the-next-dns-attack/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Covers things like choosing between and benchmarking different DNS providers and deliberately breaking DNS to measure impact. Mark Henderson [How Facebook Built a Billion User Load Balancer](https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa16/conference-program/presentation/shuff?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video A 40 minute talk that looks at how Facebook scales their load balancing infrastructure globally. Patrick Shuff, Facebook [GitHub on Moving Persistent Data Out of Redis](http://githubengineering.com/moving-persistent-data-out-of-redis/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story GitHub has heavily used Redis, the data structure server, as both a cache and for persistent storage. This post explains why they’re pulling back from the latter. GitHub Engineering [Bring observability to your web app with Datadog](https://www.datadoghq.com/lpg/?utm_source=Advertisement&utm_medium=CooperPress&utm_campaign=CooperPress-WebOpsWeekly) Graph metrics from every component of your app. Set intelligent alerts. Share with your team. Datadogsponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/2d60804c.png)](https://www.datadoghq.com/lpg/?utm_source=Advertisement&utm_medium=CooperPress&utm_campaign=CooperPress-WebOpsWeekly) [HTTP/2 Server Push and Service Workers: The Perfect Partnership](https://24ways.org/2016/http2-server-push-and-service-workers/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial HTTP/2 Server Push and Service Workers could have a significantly positive impact on your site’s load times. Dean Hume [Build a Custom CMS for a Serverless Static Site Generator](https://css-tricks.com/build-custom-cms-serverless-static-site-generator/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial How to build the bare bones of a static site generator with content authored by an admin user via a standard web form, with no database necessary. John Polacek [Offline Caching Causing Duplicate Asset Downloads](https://engineering.klarna.com/how-removing-caching-improved-mobile-performance-by-25-52a17cc339a2?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Originally titled _‘How Removing Caching Improved Mobile Performance by 25%’_, this demonstrates how caching isn’t a performance win in every instance. Case Taintor [status.sh: Bash Script to Generate A Static Status Page](https://github.com/Cyclenerd/static_status?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code A simple easy to customize Bash script to generate a static status page. Displays status of websites, services (HTTP, SAP, MySQL…) and ping. Nils Knieling 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 [Let’s Encrypt 2016 In Review](https://letsencrypt.org/2017/01/06/le-2016-in-review.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Have gone from 200,000 to over 20 million active certificates in a year. Let's Encrypt [MongoDB Ransom Attacks Soar, Hits 27,000 in Hours](http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/01/09/mongodb/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news The Register [Content Delivery Networks Move Closer to the Network Edge](http://thenewstack.io/content-delivery-networks-move-closer-network-edge/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Brian Wheeler [DreamFactory open source REST API platform](https://www.dreamfactory.com/signup?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Develop apps faster. DreamFactory automatically turns any database into a REST API platform in minutes. DreamFactorysponsored [htop Explained](https://peteris.rocks/blog/htop/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial A thorough guide to [htop](https://hisham.hm/htop/), an incredibly useful tool that lets you monitor processes on Linux. Pēteris Ņikiforovs [Creating a $15 Production Kubernetes Cluster on DigitalOcean](https://5pi.de/2016/11/20/15-producation-grade-kubernetes-cluster/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Johannes 'fish' Ziemke [Using Chaos Monkey Whenever You Feel Like It](https://medium.com/production-ready/using-chaos-monkey-whenever-you-feel-like-it-e5fe31257a07?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Slightly more predictable chaos engineering, or ‘chaos on demand’. Mathias Lafeldt [Use AWS Roles and Secure Your Access Keys with MFA](https://medium.com/@kavehmz/use-aws-roles-and-secure-your-access-with-mfa-7a7babfd123a?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Kaveh Mousavi Zamani [Building A $0 Docker Swarm in Seconds](https://cntnr.io/building-a-0-docker-swarm-in-seconds-80bf13a4d0a7?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email#.qxekr0k4p) tutorial Using ‘play-with-docker’ to set up a Docker Swarm instance. Nils De Moor [Building a Raspberry Pi Zero Swarm with OTG Networking](http://blog.alexellis.io/pizero-otg-swarm/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Alex Ellis [Analyzing AWS Detailed Billing Reports Using BigQuery and ReDash](http://blog.powerupcloud.com/2017/01/08/analyzing-aws-detailed-billing-reports-using-bigquery/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Powerupcloud [Vulcand: Live Long and Proxy](http://skookum.com/blog/Vulcand_Live_Long_and_Proxy?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial A look at the API Gateway Pattern and its place in the emerging world of microservices. Glenn Goodrich [13 Scaling-Related Lessons I Learned As A Software Engineer](https://www.techinasia.com/talk/13-scaling-lessons-learned-software-engineer?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Adam Pahlevi Baihaqi [2017 Container Trends: Winter is Coming](https://blog.codedellemc.com/2017/01/04/container_trends_winter_is_coming/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Joshua Bernstein [Instrumentation: The First Four Things You Measure](https://honeycomb.io/blog/2017/01/instrumentation-the-first-four-things-you-measure/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion The first in a series of posts exploring best practices and stories around instrumentation. Antoine Grondin [Try Codeship Pro: Free CI with Native Docker Support](https://codeship.com/features/pro-aw?utm_medium=cpc-webops-weekly-secondary&utm_campaign=pro-features-campaign-cooper) tools Ship your Docker apps faster with Codeship Pro. Try our new free tier and get 100 free builds per month. Codeshipsponsored [FreshCerts: An ACME Certificate Protocol Proxy Client with Dashboard and Monitoring](https://github.com/myfreeweb/freshcerts?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools A good centralized place to manage your Let’s Encrypt certificates, perhaps. github.​com [Seaweed-FS: A Scalable Distributed File System](https://github.com/chrislusf/seaweedfs?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Chris Lu [Chisel: A Fast TCP Tunnel Transported Over HTTP](https://github.com/jpillora/chisel?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code Jaime Pillora [Read this issue on the Web](http://webopsweekly.com/issues/98) [See our archives](http://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*) [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*) Published by [Cooperpress](https://cooperpress.com/) Fairfield Enterprise Centre, Lincoln Way, Louth, LN11 0LS, UK