LinkedIn is moving to Azure

[adminxor]

https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2019/building-next-infra

[positr0n]

At first I thought, wow! You don't see a company that big up and change cloud providers very often!

Then I remembered Microsoft bought them (3 years ago now).

[sauravs → positr0n]

Yes...seems to be completely a political decision rather than a technical one..also it reminded me of gitlab's decision to move out of Azure...

[writepub → sauravs]

Vertical integration more than political. Like Samsung phones using Samsung DRAM and storage.

[linker3000 → positr0n]

It isn't a 'change of cloud providers' as such because, a couple of years ago at least, LinkedIn was running its own server estate in a number of global, regional data centres.

[pojzon → positr0n]

Happens alot lately. Beside own subsidiaries, Microsoft creates "partnerships" and all of those "partners" sooner or later migrate to Azure.

Ofcourse its one way to beta-test your services. Hopefully it will increase the quality of the service.

[tonyedgecombe → positr0n]

I wonder if they will make a better job of it than they did moving Hotmail to their own platform.

[victorNicollet]

As an Azure customer, I have hopes that having a bigger fish in the pond would help improve reliability and availability, but those would likely happen for services that are already reliable.

[belltaco]

What do they currently use?

[tonyaiken → belltaco]

Their own data centers.

[mrbonner → belltaco]

Oracle! Ha, got you.