Network Performance Articles

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    Accelerating the LinkedIn Experience with Azure Front Door

    February 17, 2022

    Co-authors: Samir Jafferali, Viranch Mehta, and Thanglalson Gangte We announced the completion of LinkedIn’s migration to Azure’s edge offering, Azure Front Door (AFD), in June of 2020 and since then we have seen numerous benefits from the switch. Microsoft has continued to aggressively expand the AFD footprint to new countries, giving us quick and direct access...

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    Enabling Dual Stack on LinkedIn CDNs

    January 19, 2018

    Co-authors: Erin Atkinson and Bhaskar Bhowmik A few months ago, LinkedIn surpassed the 50% IPv6 traffic milestone. In this post, we will look into the methodology we adopted to measure performance as we enabled IPv6 on our content delivery networks (CDNs), and share some key results of our performance analysis. We hope this information will help readers who are...

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    IPv6 Inside LinkedIn Part III: The Elephant in the Room

    November 10, 2016

    Coauthor: Tim Crofts The LinkedIn site has been available to the public over IPv6 since 2014, and our employees have been able to browse the internet over IPv6 for even longer. In Part I of this series, we explained why we decided to move our internal network over to IPv6. In Part II, we looked at the challenges we faced when we began to enable dual stack in our...

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    inMesh: Real-Time Monitoring of Remote Sites

    April 20, 2016

    Many IT organizations support offices distributed across the world. As the number of remote sites increases, it becomes more and more...

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    InFlow - Making the LinkedIn network visible

    March 22, 2016

    To maintain the high network availability needed to serve all LinkedIn applications, we need to monitor and analyse both network...

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    Project Falco: Decoupling Switching Hardware and Software

    February 1, 2016

    Three years ago we had a serious latency problem with applications inside our data centers. We were not scaling our network...