LinkedIn started in 2003 with 2700 members in the first week and has since grown to over 400 million members globally. It initially had a monolithic Java application called Leo serving all pages and using a single SQL database. To scale, LinkedIn developed its first dedicated service for the member connection graph and another for search. It later introduced replica databases, extracted services f
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