Co-authors: Ishan Shah, Alasdair James King, and Zhenggen Xu To support the consistent growth in hyperscale environments, our infrastructure relies on a plethora of storage databases and data processing nodes across its fleet. Those services reap performance benefits from NVMe’s (Non Volatile Memory Express) super-low latency. Currently, many services still use...
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- data center,
- Storage
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Co-authors: Sandhya Ramu and Vasanth Rajamani For companies and organizations, failure tends to be far more illuminating than success and the lingering effects of a failure can be harmful if the team moves too quickly and does not resolve the issue in a thorough and transparent manner. We recently ran into a large incident that involved data loss in our big data...
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- Performance,
- Hadoop,
- data center,
- Data
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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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Last year, we announced that LinkedIn had become a Platinum member of the Open Compute Project (OCP). The move was a natural fit for...
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- Open19,
- data center,
- Open Source
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Last summer, LinkedIn helped announce the launch of the Open19 Foundation and our role as a founding member. Our aim was to assist in...
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- Open19,
- 100G 50G ,
- data center,
- Open Source
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Over the last few years, LinkedIn members have started to engage with the platform in exciting new ways. Instead of just posting...
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- Open19,
- data center,
- infrastructure