Optimizing Large-Scale Deployments at LinkedIn with Rahul Gade

The Data Flowcast: Mastering Airflow for Data Engineering & AI

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Scaling deployments for a billion users demands innovation, precision and resilience. In this episode, we dive into how LinkedIn optimizes its continuous deployment process using Apache Airflow. Rahul Gade, Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn, shares his insights on building scalable systems and democratizing deployments for over 10,000 engineers.

Rahul discusses the challenges of managing large-scale deployments across 6,000 services and how his team leverages Airflow to enhance efficiency, reliability and user accessibility.

Key Takeaways:

(01:36) LinkedIn minimizes human involvement in production to reduce errors.

(02:00) Airflow powers LinkedIn’s Continuous Deployment platform.

(05:43) Continuous deployment adoption grew from 8% to a targeted 80%.

(11:25) Kubernetes ensures scalability and flexibility for deployments.

(12:04) A custom UI offers real-time deployment transparency.

(16:23) No-code YAML workflows simplify deployment tasks.

(17:18) Canaries and metrics ensure safe deployments across fabrics.

(20:45) A gateway service ensures redundancy across Airflow clusters.

(24:22) Abstractions let engineers focus on development, not logistics.

(25:20) Multi-language support in Airflow 3.0 simplifies adoption.

Resources Mentioned:

Rahul Gade -

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-gade-68666818/

LinkedIn -

https://www.linkedin.com/company/linkedin/

Apache Airflow -

https://airflow.apache.org/

Kubernetes -

https://kubernetes.io/

Open Policy Agent (OPA) -

https://www.openpolicyagent.org/

Backstage -

https://backstage.io/

Apache Airflow Survey -

https://astronomer.typeform.com/airflowsurvey24

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