infrastructure Articles

  • Solving Espresso’s scalability and performance challenges to support our member base

    September 7, 2023

    Espresso is the database that we designed to power our member profiles, feed, recommendations, and hundreds of other Linkedin applications that handle large amounts of data and need both high performance and reliability. As Espresso continued to expand in support of our 950M+ member base, the number of network connections that it needed began to drive...

  • Open Sourcing iris-message-processor

    August 30, 2023

    One measure of a successful network is uptime - providing consistent, reliable service for members and customers. If there are frequent connection errors or downtime notifications, it becomes difficult to deliver an experience where people can connect and interact with ease. When faced with uptime challenges, being able to quickly escalate issues to network...

  • Costwiz: Saving cost for LinkedIn enterprise on Azure

    July 27, 2023

    Authors: Deven Walia, Vivek Subramaniam, Simon Desowza, and Karthik Subramanian Cloud services have completely changed the way we approach infrastructure management. It’s now much easier to manage large infra requirements that have traditionally demanded an amalgamation of teams like DBA, Infra-SRE, Onprem-SMEs, network managers, and access control managers...

  • Taking Charge of Tables: Introducing OpenHouse for Big Data...

    July 19, 2023

    Co-Authors: Sumedh Sakdeo, Lei Sun, Sushant Raikar, Stanislav Pak, and Abhishek Nath Introduction At LinkedIn, we build and operate an...

  • From the Economic Graph to Economic Insights: Building the ...

    June 2, 2023

    Authors: Dr. Patrick Driscoll and Akash Kaura LinkedIn’s vision is to create economic opportunity for every member of the global...

  • Metal as a Service (MaaS): DIY server-management at scale

    May 11, 2023

    Guaranteeing that our servers are continually upgraded to secure and vetted operating systems is one major step that we take to ensure...