Erik Krogen

Posts by Erik Krogen

  • hadoopmeetup1

    The Present and Future of Apache Hadoop: A Community Meetup at LinkedIn

    February 21, 2019

    On January 30, Hadoop developers gathered at LinkedIn’s offices in Mountain View to share their latest work, with presentations by engineers from community members like Microsoft, Cloudera, Uber, and of course, LinkedIn. The Hadoop community is the lifeblood of the project, and the strong community spread across numerous companies and countries is what has kept...

  • dynamometer-1

    Dynamometer: Scale Testing HDFS on Minimal Hardware with Maximum Fidelity

    February 8, 2018

    Co-authors: Erik Krogen and Min Shen In March 2015, LinkedIn’s Big Data Platform team experienced a crisis. As the team was preparing to head home for the day, signs of trouble began trickling in: our internal users were reporting that their applications were stalling or timing out. Job queues were backing up, and SLAs would be missed. A bit of investigation...