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LinkedIn, which is a business subsidiary of Microsoft, will migrate away from private data centers into the Azure public cloud.
The strategic shift was confirmed on the LinkedIn Engineering blog in a posting by Mohak Shroff.
LinkedIn currently serves 645million users and the company boasts that someone is hired due to their LinkedIn profile every eight seconds.
https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2019/building-next-infra
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Google/Alphabet Project Loon served 2011–2021. What ultimately replaced it?
Google/Alphabet Project Loon solar-powered balloons drifting in the stratosphere (~20 km), steering by rising and falling into different wind layers, relaying LTE from ground stations to phones far below. Its job passed to Unit economics — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
From 25 years of the Converge Digest archive.
