---
title: "Making LinkedIn's Organic Feed Handle Peak Traffic"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 167
published_at: "2018-05-23"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/167"
---

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news       

#167 — May 23, 2018 

[Read on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/167)   

Web Operations Weekly  

[Making LinkedIn's Organic Feed Handle Peak Traffic](https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2018/05/making-linkedin-s-organic-feed-handle-peak-traffic) — Like Facebook and Twitter, LinkedIn offers its users a constantly updating activity feed/timeline. Here’s a look at how LinkedIn load tests it and what problems they’ve run into. 

Val Markovic (LinkedIn Engineering)   

[The Tale of a $36k Google App Engine RCE Exploit](https://sites.google.com/site/testsitehacking/-36k-google-app-engine-rce) — A neat (and quite technical) story of how a student interested in security dug around in Google App Engine and made a nice bounty. 

Ezequiel Pereira   [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/e74dc580.png)](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-alertmanager-and-blackbox-exporter-to-monitor-your-web-server-on-ubuntu-16-04?utm_source=paid_newsletter+WebOps+weekly&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=2018_Brand&utm_content=5-23-2018+Webops+weekly+cooperpress) 

[Prometheus User? Set Up Server Alerts via Email & Slack](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-alertmanager-and-blackbox-exporter-to-monitor-your-web-server-on-ubuntu-16-04?utm_source=paid_newsletter+WebOps+weekly&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=2018_Brand&utm_content=5-23-2018+Webops+weekly+cooperpress) — Discover how to use Alertmanager and Blackbox Exporter to monitor your web server on Ubuntu 16.04 in this tutorial from DigitalOcean. 

DigitalOcean sponsor   

[Evolving Chrome's Security Indicators](https://blog.chromium.org/2018/05/evolving-chromes-security-indicators.html) — If your site isn’t being served over HTTPS, Chrome shows a ‘Not Secure’ warning but later this year, HTTPS sites won’t show the ‘Secure’ messaging in the location bar as HTTPS will be assumed the sensible default. 

Google   

[Google Kubernetes Engine 1.10 Is Generally Available and Ready for the Enterprise](https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/05/Google-Kubernetes-Engine-1-10-is-generally-available-and-ready-for-the-enterprise.html) 

Google Cloud Platform   

[Atlassian Open Source Its 'Escalator' Kubernetes Auto-Scaling Tool](https://developer.atlassian.com/blog/2018/05/introducing-escalator/) — _“Gone are our three minute waits for EC2 instances to boot and join the cluster. Instead pods transition from scheduled to running in seconds.”_ 

Corey Johnston (Atlassian)   

[Our Weekly Serverless News Roundup](https://serverless.email/issues/52) — AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, or OpenFaaS fan? Check out our weekly newsletter dedicated to _serverless_ architectures, platforms and tools. 

Cooperpress   

[US Senator Requests US Department of Defense Adopts HTTP Best Practices](https://www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/wyden-web-encryption-letter-to-dod-cio.pdf) — This comes months after the senator hired cybersecurity expert [Christopher Soghoian](https://www.dubfire.net/) to advise on cybersecurity matters. 

Senator Ron Wyden   

[How Raygun Processes Millions of Error Events Per Second](https://stackshare.io/raygun/how-raygun-processes-millions-of-error-events-per-second) — A look at the tech stack and considerations behind running a error monitoring service. 

StackShare   

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Manifold sponsor  

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📘 Stories & Case Studies  

[Lessons in Thrift: How Facebook Keeps its Web Pages Snappy](https://thenewstack.io/lessons-in-thrift-how-facebook-keeps-its-web-pages-snappy/) 

Joab Jackson   

[Monitoring Microservices: Divide and Conquer](https://engineering.salesforce.com/monitoring-microservices-divide-and-conquer-acca62b209cc) 

Dmitry Melanchenko (Salesforce)   

[Full Cycle Developers at Netflix](https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/full-cycle-developers-at-netflix-a08c31f83249) — A look at how Netflix believes in ‘operating what you build’. 

Netflix Technology Blog   

[Building Services at Airbnb, Part 2](https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/building-services-at-airbnb-part-2-142be1c5d506) 

Liang Guo (Airbnb Engineering)   

[Looking Under The Hood of Eventbrite's Data Pipeline](https://www.eventbrite.com/engineering/looking-under-the-hood-of-the-eventbrite-data-pipeline/) 

Ed Presz (Eventbrite)  

📘 Tutorials & Opinion  

[7 Ways to Improve Your Test Suite with Docker](https://blog.codeship.com/7-ways-to-improve-your-test-suite-with-docker/) — A look at some ways Docker can make your testing setup more flexible, particularly for larger, more complex apps. 

Karl Hughes   

[Kubernetes Best Practices: Terminating with Grace](https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/05/Kubernetes-best-practices-terminating-with-grace.html) 

Sandeep Dinesh (Google)   

[Monitoring MySQL with NGINX Amplify](https://www.nginx.com/blog/monitoring-mysql-nginx-amplify/) — [NGINX Amplify](https://www.nginx.com/products/nginx-amplify/) is a monitoring tool that now has a MySQL plugin. 

Andrew Alexeev   

[Fetching Private GitHub Repos from a Docker Container](https://medium.com/paperchain/fetching-private-github-repos-from-a-docker-container-273f25ec5a74) 

Rahul Rumalla   

[Understanding How Node.js's Release Lines Work](https://nodesource.com/blog/understanding-how-node-js-release-lines-work) — Useful if you’re not living and breathing Node.js every day. 

Tierney Cyren   

[Kubernetes Chaos Engineering: Lessons Learned](https://learnk8s.io/blog/kubernetes-chaos-engineering-lessons-learned) 

Daniele Polencic   

[How Twilio Improves 'Mean Time To Discovery'](https://rollbar.com/customers/twilio/?utm_source=email-nl&utm_medium=email-nl&utm_campaign=email-nl) 

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Nicole Tache (O'Reilly) and JP Phillips (IBM) podcast  

🔧 Tools  

[Mozilla SSL Configuration Generator](https://mozilla.github.io/server-side-tls/ssl-config-generator/) — Generate Mozilla Security-recommended config files for Apache, NGINX, HAProxy, etc. 

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