As companies grow, adapt, morph, and mature, one item remains the same: the need for reinvention. Technical infrastructure is no exception. As our member community grew, our priorities were to keep up with that growth, or as we say, ensure continuous “site up.” (Read: adding servers to scale from hundreds to hundreds of thousands.) We ran into challenges about...
infrastructure Articles
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- Performance,
- infrastructure,
- linux,
- SRE
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Editor’s note: This blog post is the first in a series providing an overview and history of LinkedIn’s experimentation platform. At any given time, LinkedIn’s experimentation platform is serving up to 41,000 A/B tests simultaneously on a user population of over 700 million members. Operation at such a scale is enabled with the LinkedIn Targeting, Ramping, and...
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- scale,
- A/B Testing,
- infrastructure,
- T-REX,
- experimentation
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Co-authors: Scott Meyer, Andrew Carter, and Andrew Rodriguez Editor’s note: This is the second part of a two-part blog series. Part 1 described how graph data relates to the in-memory graph of structures commonly used as models (as in “model-view-controller”) by applications, how graph data can be stored in a conventional relational database, and why...
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- scale,
- infrastructure,
- knowledge graph,
- Data
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The internet software industry has moved away from long development cycles and dedicated quality assurance (QA) stages, toward a...
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In the previous blog posts of our “Rebuilding messaging” series, we shared the process of how we designed the system from high-level...
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- infrastructure,
- Architecture,
- Product Design
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Co-authors: Scott Meyer, Andrew Carter, and Andrew Rodriguez Editor’s note: In this two-part blog series, we introduce LIquid, a new...
- Topics:
- scale,
- infrastructure,
- knowledge graph,
- Data