One of our sayings in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is that the goal of your job is to “automate yourself out of the job.” While some may have concerns of being replaced by robots, SRE’s see the value of automating work. It opens up time, removes tedious or repetitive tasks from a workflow, and allows our engineers to spend their valuable time on more...
SRE Articles
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- Topics:
- Open Source,
- SRE
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Couchbase is a highly scalable, distributed data store that plays a critical role in LinkedIn’s caching systems. Couchbase was first adopted at LinkedIn in 2012, and it now handles over 10 million queries per second with over 200 clusters in our production, staging, and corporate environments. Couchbase’s replication mechanisms and high performance have enabled...
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Coauthors: Bhaskaran Devaraj and Xiao Li Over the last several years, many companies have discussed ways to improve the resiliency of their services and infrastructure. Many projects, like Netflix’s Simian Army, have spawned open source projects that have been adopted by other companies. Other discussions about resilience engineering focus on cultural and...
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- Resilience,
- SRE
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Introduction LinkedIn uses MySQL heavily, as more than 500 internal applications rely on MySQL. For easy management and better...
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Hiring engineers is a challenging task. Doing it right can be difficult, and many companies struggle with it. I gave a talk at the...
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- engineering culture,
- Hiring,
- NYC Engineering,
- SRE
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At a company as large as LinkedIn, service degradation isn’t a question of “if” so much as “when,” and when things do break, we need...
- Topics:
- Open Source,
- SRE