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Architecture Digest

Mar 22, 2016 · Backend Development

Evolution of LinkedIn’s Backend Architecture: From the Leo Monolith to a Scalable Service‑Oriented Platform

The article chronicles LinkedIn’s journey from a single‑server Leo monolith to a highly distributed, service‑oriented backend architecture, detailing the introduction of member graphs, read‑only replicas, caching layers, Kafka pipelines, Rest.li APIs, super‑blocks, and multi‑data‑center deployments to support billions of daily requests.