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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 A look at our biggest SRE[in]con yet Analyzing anomalies with ThirdEye Eliminating toil with fully automated load testing Open sourcing DataHub: LinkedIn’s metadata search and discovery platform 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.