Three years ago, LinkedIn announced and open sourced Ambry, a distributed, highly available and horizontally scalable immutable object store optimized to store and serve media. As we stated at the time, this was an important update given how vital media content is for any website to increase user engagement, virality, and monetization. Since its introduction, we...
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Media content has become ubiquitous around the web and almost all of Linkedin's new features interact with media in some form or the other. Profile photos, email attachments, logos, and influencer posts are a few examples of where photos, videos, PDFs, and other media types get uploaded and displayed to the end user. These media types get stored on our backend...
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A couple weeks ago, Professor John Ousterhout visited LinkedIn to give a tech talk called "RAMCloud: Scalable High-Performance Storage Entirely in DRAM". In case you missed it, you can check out the recorded version below. Video Abstract The performance of disk based systems has not kept pace with the ever increasing scale of modern web applications. Developers...
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Update: missed this tech talk? We've got you covered. Check out the video here. Come by LinkedIn Headquarters on Wednesday, October 12...
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