Open Source

LinkedIn Open Tech Talk: Grant Ingersoll on What's New in Lucene and Solr

03/31/2013

Head of Query Understanding

LinkedIn since 12.10

LinkedIn Engineering will be hosting a talk by Grant Ingersoll at LinkedIn on April 9, 2013 at 4 PM. Grant will be talking about the latest and greatest in Lucene and Solr 4, particularly the... | Read More

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Lucene SearchOpen SourceEvent

Play Framework: async I/O without the thread pool and callback hell

03/27/2013

Yevgeniy Brikman

Staff Software Engineer

LinkedIn since 09.09

The Play Framework is fully asynchronous, making it easy to build scalable, performant web services without getting into thread pool hell. However, working with asynchronous I/O requires a new... | Read More

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Play Open SourceWeb FrameworkScalaAsync

White Elephant: The Hadoop Tool You Never Knew You Needed

03/20/2013

Matthew Hayes

Staff Software Engineer

LinkedIn since 09.10

As the use of Hadoop grows in an organization, scheduling, capacity planning, and billing become critical concerns. These are all open problems in the Hadoop space, and today, we’re happy to... | Read More

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Hadoop White ElephantOpen Source

Announcing the Voldemort 1.3 Open Source Release

03/19/2013

Vinoth Chandar

Senior Software Engineer

LinkedIn since 11.11

I am excited to announce the availability of the Voldemort 1.3.0 Open Source release. In 2012, Voldemort experienced unprecedented levels of traffic growth at LinkedIn and we have done our best to... | Read More

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Voldemort Open SourceDistributed Systems

Open sourcing Databus: LinkedIn's low latency change data capture system

02/26/2013

Chavdar Botev

Staff Engineer

LinkedIn since 05.10

We are pleased to announce the open source release of Databus - a source-agnostic distributed change data capture system, which we have built at Linkedin.... | Read More

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Data replication CDCchange data captureDistributed SystemsOpen Source

The Play Framework at LinkedIn

02/20/2013

Yevgeniy Brikman

Staff Software Engineer

LinkedIn since 09.09

I’m excited to announce the next step in LinkedIn’s service infrastructure: the Play Framework. Play is a modern web framework that combines the performance and reliability of Java and Scala, the... | Read More

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Play Open SourceWeb FrameworkDeveloper Productivity

Intra-cluster Replication in Apache Kafka

02/03/2013

Jun Rao

Staff Engineer

LinkedIn since 05.10

Kafka is a distributed publish-subscribe messaging system. In the upcoming version 0.8 release, Kafka will support intra-cluster replication, which increases both the availability and the durability... | Read More

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Kafka Open SourceDistributed SystemsBig DataData Streams

Announcing Helix, an open source cluster management system

10/10/2012

Kapil Surlaker

Staff Engineer

LinkedIn since 08.10

We are pleased to announce the open source release of Helix- a generic cluster management system for managing partitioned and replicated resources in distributed systems. ... | Read More