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Microsoft's technology portfolio & research /far outstrips/ anything LinkedIn did or would encounter.

I'd guess that this appointment is Cloud/Azure related.

Sure, and it is also likely 100x the size. That wasn't the original question, the question was what has LinkedIn done engineering wise. I'd say Kafka was a pretty smashing success having met all of Neha, Jun, and Jay Kreps and talked Kafka with them.

Thanks for the link. I noticed their idea of "unified log" in a diagram about 45% of the way down. Does anyone know if this is the same thing talked about in the forthcoming Manning book "Unified Log Processing"?

https://www.manning.com/books/unified-log-processing

Hey clumysmurf - author of the book here; yes indeed, the book is heavily influenced by Jay Kreps' LinkedIn paper.

Voldemort was pretty influential too, even though it has been eclipsed by Cassandra.