LinkedIn is moving to Azure
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LinkedIn is moving to Azure
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Re: LinkedIn is moving to Azure
#2It'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.
Re: LinkedIn is moving to Azure
#3It'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.
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.
Re: LinkedIn is moving to Azure
#4To.... get acquired by Microsoft in order to become the modern version of Active Directory?
Re: LinkedIn is moving to Azure
#5To.... get acquired by Microsoft in order to become the modern version of Active Directory?
They were already acquired by Microsoft a few years ago. [0]
[0]: https://news.microsoft.com/2016/06/13/microsoft-to-acquire-l...
Re: LinkedIn is moving to Azure
#6This is just good business by Microsoft, boost those azure revenues by saying "Linkedin runs on Azure", maybe there are cost savings as well.