Cloud-Computing

Authors: Deven Walia, Vivek Subramaniam, Simon Desowza, and Karthik Subramanian Cloud services have completely changed the way we approach infrastructure management. It’s now much easier to manage large infra requirements that have traditionally demanded an amalgamation of teams like DBA, Infra-SRE, Onprem-SMEs, network managers, and access control managers working together. However, the ease of these processes can lead to over-provisioning and under-utilization of cloud resources, resulting in increased operating expenses. Without careful monitoring and accountability in place, […]

Search functionality is a core part of most data-driven products, and is used widely at LinkedIn. We have long provided a central platform for search functionalities; however, it was not fully managed in the sense that the application teams needed to own and operate the corresponding resources. As data needs grow and an increasingly high number of products want to integrate search, we discovered a need for a fully managed self-service platform to completely democratize search for all of our product teams. In this post, we will talk about Hosted Search, our new search solution that […]