Posted By: Thomas Shaw, 8:30am Friday 06 August 2010
At a recent presentation by Jay Kreps of LinkedIn at the Hadoop Sumit 2010. Jay describes how LinkedIn crunches 120 billion relationships per day and blends large scale data computation with high volume, low latency site serving.
The Search, Network, and Analytics (SNA) team at LinkedIn works on LinkedIn's information retrieval systems, the social graph system, data driven features, and supporting data infrastructure. The system uses a number of open source software products such as
Apache Hadoop - framework for running applications on large clusters of commodity hardware.