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...
SRE Articles
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- infrastructure,
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Espresso is LinkedIn's defacto NoSQL database solution. It is an online, distributed, fault-tolerant database that powers most of LinkedIn’s applications including member profiles, InMail (LinkedIn's member-to-member messaging system), sections of the main LinkedIn homepage, our mobile applications, and more. Since Espresso caters to many critical features, its...
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- Performance,
- ESPRESSO,
- site speed,
- SRE
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Co-authors: Viranch Mehta, Jon Sorenson, Samir Jafferali As LinkedIn has grown to more than 690 million members, we’ve expanded our edge platform to 19 Points of Presence (PoPs) across 5 continents over the years to be closer to our members and provide a quick and reliable experience. As we started evaluating how to best scale for the future needs of our...
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- scale,
- infrastructure,
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Editor's Note: LinkedIn Engineering is dedicated to solving complex problems at scale to create economic opportunity for every member...
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- engineering culture,
- Women in Tech,
- NYC Engineering,
- SRE
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As the year draws to a close, we’re taking a look back at ten of our most popular 2019 articles on the LinkedIn Engineering Blog....
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- artificial intelligence,
- Pinot,
- Feed Personalization ,
- Security,
- Kafka,
- SRE
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Introduction In 2013, when LinkedIn moved to multiple data centers across the globe, we needed a way to redirect traffic from one data...
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- data center,
- Automation,
- SRE