Why geographically-distributed SRE teams? In today’s hyper-connected technological world, there is a need for geographically widespread technical teams to facilitate global growth. Businesses that scale to this level need global teams to handle that reach. However, as development teams continue to ramp, it quickly becomes infeasible for them to solve operational...
SRE Articles
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Co-authors: Bef Ayenew and Adam Hobson Consider the following conversation that used to be typical at LinkedIn: "Folks, we may have an on-call problem this week..." "What’s wrong?" "Our Android engineer is missing." "Where are they?" "They’ve been on leave for two weeks now." "?!?!&*?!?!" Welcome to the on-call rotation for the LinkedIn flagship mobile app and...
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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...
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- 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...
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Coauthors: Bhaskaran Devaraj and Xiao Li Over the last several years, many companies have discussed ways to improve the resiliency...
- Topics:
- 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...