At LinkedIn, our on-call incidents are managed using Iris and Oncall, two tools that we released as open source to the community about two years ago. Oncall allows our teams to manage their on-call shifts in a largely automated fashion, scheduling rotations without any human intervention. At the same time, it allows teams to be agile and adaptable when defining...
SRE Articles
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- Mobile,
- Open Source,
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Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared as a guest post on VentureBeat titled “What I learned by bringing down LinkedIn.com.” Reprinted here in full, the post tells the story of how Katie accidentally crashed LinkedIn.com. After the immediate problem was resolved, the incident resulted in sitewide technical improvements and turned out to be a growth...
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- engineering culture,
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LinkedIn has made significant investments in resilience engineering over the past few years. As Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), we've consistently witnessed the effects of Murphy's Law: "Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong." In a complex, distributed technology stack, it's important to understand the points where things can go wrong in your system and...
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- Resilience,
- SRE
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At LinkedIn, we ship hundreds of command-line utilities to every machine in our data centers and to all of our employees’ workstations...
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- Open Source,
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Author's note: My colleague, Michael Kehoe, wrote a blog post on the Couchbase Ecosystem at LinkedIn. I encourage you to read it if...
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- Couchbase,
- infrastructure,
- Data,
- SRE
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In part one of this series, we discussed some of the key principles to consider when developing geographically distributed (GD) SRE...