Blog posts about Distributed Systems

Introduction Capacity is a key component of reliability. Uber's services require enough resources in order to handle ...

Introduction Cadence is a multi-tenant orchestration framework that helps developers at Uber to write fault-tolerant,...

Introduction Each day, Uber moves millions of people around the world and delivers tens of millions of food and groce...

Background Apache Kafka® is widely used across Uber’s multiple business lines. Take the example of an Uber ride: When...

Scaling our data infrastructure with lower hardware costs while maintaining high performance and service reliability ...

  Introduction The Fulfillment Platform is a foundational Uber domain that enables the rapid scaling of new verticals...

Co-authors: Andy Li and Hongbin Wu Indexing plays the key role in modern search engines for fast and accurate informa...

Uber recently launched a new capability: Ads on UberEats. With this new ability came new challenges that needed to be...

Part one of a series on how we provide powerful, automated, and scalable data privacy and security engineering capabi...

Co-authors: Konstantin V. Shvachko, Chen Liang, and Simbarashe Dzinamarira LinkedIn runs its big data analytics on Ha...

OMNI is an intuitive, homegrown platform that supports message creation, processing, and distribution to engage our g...

Access Control at scale for a complex product

Co-authors: Hunter Lee and Dru Pollini LinkedIn was built to help professionals achieve more in their careers, and ev...

Learn about the background, challenges, and future of Airbnb’s distributed scheduling and queueing system.

We regularly play host to a series of meetups here at the LinkedIn office in the Empire State Building. Open to the c...

In this blog post, we’ll share how we migrated Espresso, LinkedIn’s distributed data store, to a new Netty4-based fra...

Pinot is an open source, scalable distributed OLAP data store that entered the Apache Incubation recently. Developed ...

How we built a generic idempotency framework to achieve eventual consistency and correctness across our payments micr...