Co-authors: Anil Mallapur and Michael Kehoe LinkedIn started as a professional networking service in 2003, serving user requests out of single data center. For any internet services company, availability is a key factor in its success. In any internet architecture, a lot of things can go wrong at any given time; network links can die, power fluctuations can...
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Let’s start this post with a little history. In November 2015, the mobile team was looking for a solution that would give a good picture of how LinkedIn apps performed with respect to crashes. We had an internal tool to visualize crash data, but the UX was not good enough to help developers fix crashes and did not have adequate information to gauge the impact of...
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- infrastructure,
- Mobile
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Over a decade ago, test strategies invested heavily in UI-driven tests. Backend and mid-tier services were tested using automated UI-based tests. While UI-based tests have certain merits, such as testing user flows, they are also time-consuming and fragile. The strong coupling of tests with UI caused several problems: Tests needed frequent modification due to...
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- Apache Samza,
- Stream Processing,
- Apache Kafka,
- Testing
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This post was updated on June 15, 2017 Co-authors: Shangshang Feng, Yabin Kang, and Dan Vinegrad At LinkedIn, we often develop web...
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- Performance,
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Co-authors: Susie Xia and Anant Rao LinkedIn serves more than 467 million members on a global computing infrastructure through...
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- Performance,
- Resilience,
- Testing,
- Automation
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Part of LinkedIn’s 3x3 pipeline for building and releasing mobile applications involves making the cycle for testing changes to the...
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- Craftsmanship,
- Mobile,
- Android,
- Testing,
- Open Source