My favorite LinkedIn Engineering Blog Posts of FY20

One of the hats I wear at LinkedIn is technical editor of the Linkedin Engineering Blog. In FY2020, I’ve edited 17 of our blog posts (and written one). I want to highlight my top 5 favourite posts of the Fiscal Year:

The Top Five

1. A look at our biggest SRE[in]con yet
2. Analyzing anomalies with ThirdEye
3. Eliminating toil with fully automated load testing
4. Open sourcing DataHub: LinkedIn’s metadata search and discovery platform
5. How LinkedIn customizes Apache kafka for 7 trillion messages per day

Other posts I’ve edited (in order of date posted):

• DataHub: A generalized metadata search & discovery tool
• LinkedIn NYC Tech Talk serices: Engineering Excellence Meetup
• Solving manageability challenges at scale with Nuage
• Empowering our developers with the Nuage SDK
• Upgrading to RHEL7 with minimal interruptions
• Coding Conversations: Four teams, three tracks, two offices
• Advanced schema management for Spark applications at scale
• Open sourcing Kube2Hadoop: Secure access to HDFS from Kubernetes
• The impact of slow NFS on data systems
• Scaling LinkedIn’s Edge with Azure Front Door
• Monitoring business performance data with ThirdEye smart alerts
• Faster testing on Android with Mobile Test Orchestrator
• Building LinkedIn Talent Insights

While I can’t give too much away, in FY21, the LinkedIn engineering blog will have features on some of our largest data systems as well as more deep-dives on how we built our features.