Co-authors: Carl Steinbach and Vasanth Rajamani Big challenges in the big data ecosystem At LinkedIn, we have a number of challenges managing data in our complex data ecosystem. Changes to our infrastructure are often necessary to make progress, but they are difficult to accomplish without an expensive, large-scale, coordinated effort. Analytics processing...

Next Tuesday marks the start of the Spark Summit Conference in San Francisco. This year, LinkedIn engineers and data scientists are presenting four separate talks at the conference, and we’ll be hosting a meetup at our San Francisco office on the final day. All of this is an indication of the significant impact that Apache Spark has had on the way people process...

This post has been updated to note the release of Pepperdata's Application Profiler, a commercial project based on Dr. Elephant. Last April, we announced the first open source release of Dr. Elephant, a performance monitoring and tuning service for Hadoop and Spark jobs. That announcement marked the culmination of two years of internal development work and more...