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Lessons from Building and Scaling LinkedIn
Summary
Jay Kreps discusses the evolution of LinkedIn's architecture and lessons learned scaling from a monolithic application to a distributed set of services, from one database to distributed data stores.
Bio
Jay Kreps is a Principle Staff Engineer at LinkedIn where he acts as the technical lead for data infrastructure and relevance areas. He is the original engineer for several open source projects developed there including Voldemort (a key-value store), Azkaban (a Hadoop workflow scheduler), and Apache Kafka (a distributed messaging system).
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