Blog posts about SRE

Introduction LinkedIn’s stack consists of thousands of different microservices and the associated complex dependencies among them. When a production outage...

While site outages are inevitable, it’s our job to minimize both the duration of outages and the likelihood for an outage to occur. One of our preemptive m...

Co-authors: Akbar KM and Kalyanasundaram Somasundaram Site up and secure is a fundamental element of how we operate, and site...

As companies grow, adapt, morph, and mature, one item remains the same: the need for reinvention. Technical infrastructure is no...

Espresso is LinkedIn's defacto NoSQL database solution. It is an online, distributed, fault-tolerant database that powers most of LinkedIn’s applications i...

Co-authors: Viranch Mehta, Jon Sorenson, Samir Jafferali As LinkedIn has grown to more than 690 million members, we’ve expanded our edge platform to 19 Poi...

By Hank Jacobs, Senior Site Reliability Engineer on CORE

Editor's Note: LinkedIn Engineering is dedicated to solving complex problems at scale to create economic opportunity for every member...

As the year draws to a close, we’re taking a look back at ten of our most popular 2019 articles on the LinkedIn Engineering Blog....

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

Co-authors: Todd Palino, Samir Jafferali, Kurt Andersen, and Carolyn Blood LinkedIn hosted its 4th annual SRE[in]con conference in late October that brough...

At LinkedIn, our on-call incidents are managed using Iris and Oncall, two tools that we released as open source to the community about two years ago. Oncal...

Learn more about the work that our dedicated reliability engineering team is doing behind the scenes to keep our systems up and running.

Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared as a guest post on VentureBeat titled “What I learned by bringing down LinkedIn.com.” Reprinted here in ful...

LinkedIn has made significant investments in resilience engineering over the past few years. As Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), we've consistently witne...

At LinkedIn, we ship hundreds of command-line utilities to every machine in our data centers and to all of our employees’ workstations...

Author's note: My colleague, Michael Kehoe, wrote a blog post on the Couchbase Ecosystem at LinkedIn. I encourage you to read it if you haven’t already! Th...

In part one of this series, we discussed some of the key principles to consider when developing geographically distributed (GD) SRE...