LinkedIn is moving to Azure (opens in new tab)

(engineering.linkedin.com)

17 pointssmcgraw6y ago6 comments

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This is just good business by Microsoft, boost those azure revenues by saying "Linkedin runs on Azure", maybe there are cost savings as well.

RocketSyntax6y ago

To.... get acquired by Microsoft in order to become the modern version of Active Directory?

gfs6y ago

They were already acquired by Microsoft a few years ago. [0]

[0]: https://news.microsoft.com/2016/06/13/microsoft-to-acquire-l...

RocketSyntax6y ago

Ah, that's right! totally forgot!

noad6y ago

It's so strange that they brag about Kafka as their big tech achievement, the "relevant news feed" is what killed linkedin for me and many other people.

Good luck moving the infrastructure for all those nonsense clickbait articles to azure. You won't have me as a product no matter where those servers sit.

mtmail6y ago

Tech achievement (big data, redundancy etc) and if end users like the data are separate. If Twitter explains how they move data around it's still interesting regardless if I like the users or content on their website.

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strikelaserclaw6y ago

This is just good business by Microsoft, boost those azure revenues by saying "Linkedin runs on Azure", maybe there are cost savings as well.

RocketSyntax6y ago

To.... get acquired by Microsoft in order to become the modern version of Active Directory?

gfs6y ago

They were already acquired by Microsoft a few years ago. [0]

[0]: https://news.microsoft.com/2016/06/13/microsoft-to-acquire-l...

RocketSyntax6y ago

Ah, that's right! totally forgot!

noad6y ago

It's so strange that they brag about Kafka as their big tech achievement, the "relevant news feed" is what killed linkedin for me and many other people.

Good luck moving the infrastructure for all those nonsense clickbait articles to azure. You won't have me as a product no matter where those servers sit.

mtmail6y ago

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