Co-authors: Shawn Zandi and Russ White This post originally appeared in Network Computing. Operating a large scale, rapidly-growing network requires a philosophical change in how you plan, deploy, and operate your infrastructure. At LinkedIn, as we scaled our data center network, it became evident that we needed to provision and build networks not only as...

LinkedIn's infrastructure needs to seamlessly handle petabytes of data on a daily basis. Our data centers and infrastructure have grown by 34 percent on annual basis and almost half a billion people in more than 200 countries and territories rely on us. In order to reliably deliver our services to our members and customers, we have expanded our data center...