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LinkedIn is moving to Azure

17 points| smcgraw | 6 years ago |engineering.linkedin.com

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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.

RocketSyntax|6 years ago

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

gfs|6 years ago

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

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

noad|6 years 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.

mtmail|6 years 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.