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 us, given the organization’s mission, “To apply the benefits of open source hardware and rapidly increase the pace of innovation in, near, and around the data center and beyond,” and LinkedIn’s own support of open standards and...
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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 building a community for a new generation of open data centers and edge solutions and to one day contribute our Open19 project to the foundation. Over the last year, we’ve successfully advanced that mission both in our support of...
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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
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Editor’s note: LinkedIn Engineering VP Sonu Nayyar recently gave a talk on the evolution of LinkedIn’s data center strategy at DCD...
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- Altair,
- Open19,
- data center,
- infrastructure
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One of the key components of our vision for LinkedIn’s global infrastructure is to ultimately build a programmable data center fabric...
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- data center,
- Falco,
- Open Source