LinkedIn replaced its decade-old Zookeeper-based service discovery system with a next-generation architecture using Kafka for writes and gRPC/xDS for reads. The new system handles hundreds of thousands of service instances with 10x better median latency (P50 < 1s vs 10s) and 6x better P99 latency. Key improvements include
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Your free ticket to Monster SCALE Summit is waiting — 50+ engineering talks on data-intensive applications (Sponsored)Zookeeper-Based ArchitectureWeb Search API for your AI applications (Sponsored)Critical Problems with ZookeeperThe Next-Gen Service Discovery ArchitectureKey Improvements Over ZookeeperThe Migration ChallengeThe Solution: Dual Mode MigrationAutomated Dependency AnalysisConclusionSort: