Blog posts about Data Center

Co-authors: Ishan Shah, Alasdair James King, and Zhenggen Xu To support the consistent growth in hyperscale environments, our infrastructure relies on a plethora of storage databases and data processing nodes across its fleet. Those serv...

Co-authors: Sandhya Ramu and Vasanth Rajamani For companies and organizations, failure tends to be far more illuminating than success and the lingering eff...

Introduction In 2013, when LinkedIn moved to multiple data centers across the globe, we needed a way to redirect traffic from one data...

Last year, we announced that LinkedIn had become a Platinum member of the Open Compute Project (OCP). The move was a natural fit for us, given the organiza...

Last summer, LinkedIn helped announce the launch of the Open19 Foundation and our role as a founding member. Our aim was to assist in building a community ...

Over the last few years, LinkedIn members have started to engage with the platform in exciting new ways. Instead of just posting short-form text updates, t...

Editor’s note: LinkedIn Engineering VP Sonu Nayyar recently gave a talk on the evolution of LinkedIn’s data center strategy at DCD...

One of the key components of our vision for LinkedIn’s global infrastructure is to ultimately build a programmable data center fabric on top of an open net...

In July 2016, LinkedIn unveiled Open19, a new project with the aim to establish open standards for servers based on a common form factor to change the way ...

Co-authors: Anil Mallapur and Michael Kehoe Editor's note: This blog has been updated. LinkedIn started as a professional networking...

Co-authors: Shawn Zandi and Russ White This post originally appeared in Network Computing. Operating a large scale, rapidly-growing network requires a phil...

Coauthors: Shawn Zandi, Mike Yamaguchi Earlier this year we announced Project Altair, our massively scalable, next-generation data center design. We also a...

Coauthor: Tim Crofts The LinkedIn site has been available to the public over IPv6 since 2014, and our employees have been able to...

Editor's note: This blog has been updated. LinkedIn’s data center infrastructure has grown at a massive scale. Starting with one...

Coauthor: Tim Crofts In Part I of this series, we explained why we decided to move our internal network over to IPv6. The LinkedIn...

This week at the DatacenterDynamics Webscale conference, I have the privilege of announcing the first step in a long journey, an initiative that we hope wi...

Co-authors: Saikrishna Kotha and Shawn Zandi We recently wrote a blog post on Project Falco, our new disaggregated switching platform that is part of Altai...

Co-authors: Leigh Madock, Andrew Stracner, and Tim Crofts If you follow this blog regularly, you’ll know that scaling up our...