The internet software industry has moved away from long development cycles and dedicated quality assurance (QA) stages, toward a fast-paced continuous-integration/continuous-delivery (CI/CD) pipeline, where new code is quickly written, committed, and pushed to user-facing applications and services. Doing so has dramatically increased iteration speeds, and at...
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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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- data center,
- Automation,
- SRE
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Co-authors: Susie Xia and Anant Rao Editor's note: This blog has been updated due to the renaming of the project since publication. LinkedIn serves more than 467 million members on a global computing infrastructure through hundreds of internal services. During processes such as new feature releases, capacity planning for traffic growth, and data center failover...
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- Performance,
- Resilience,
- Testing,
- Automation
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Editor's note: This blog has been updated. LinkedIn’s data center infrastructure has grown at a massive scale. Starting with one...
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- data center,
- Automation
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Around the end of 2012, LinkedIn decided to move away from retail data centers to wholesale ones that are built and maintained by...
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- Python,
- Automation,
- SRE
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LinkedIn’s API is the gateway used by numerous applications to access LinkedIn data, from simple third-party apps to large-scale...
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- tools,
- Automation,
- SRE