Introduction In 2013, when LinkedIn moved to multiple data centers across the globe, we needed a way to redirect traffic from one data center to another in order to mitigate potential member impact in the event of a disturbance to our services. This need led to the birth of one of the most important pieces of engineering at LinkedIn, called TrafficShift. It...
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- Topics:
- data center,
- Automation,
- SRE
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LinkedIn delivers value to more than 660 million members via thousands of microservices, most of which depend on data infrastructure or mid-tier infrastructure platforms. This means that in order to launch a new application, developers traditionally had to request and set up an online database as a business data source of truth or stream data via Kafka topics,...
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- infrastructure,
- Data
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Co-authors: Todd Palino, Samir Jafferali, Kurt Andersen, and Carolyn Blood LinkedIn hosted its 4th annual SRE[in]con conference in late October that brought together over 700 LinkedIn site engineers, as well as partners from Microsoft, Github, Drawbridge and Glint, for more than 60 talks, workshops, and main stage keynotes. The purpose? To provide engineers...
- Topics:
- engineering culture,
- events,
- SRE
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LinkedIn wouldn't be the company it is today without the engineers who built it and the talented individuals in technical roles across...
- Topics:
- engineering culture
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Co-authors: Nanna Ericson and Tetyana Bruevich Over the last few years, LinkedIn has rolled out several features that provide...
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Co-authors: Krishnan Raman and Joey Salacup Monitoring big data pipelines often equates to waiting for a long-running batch job to...
- Topics:
- infrastructure,
- Gobblin,
- tools,
- Kafka