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Saurabh Chhajed
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Saurabh Chhajed

Saurabh Chhajed is a technologist with vast professional experience in building Enterprise applications that span across product and service industries. He has experience building some of the largest recommender engines using big data analytics and machine learning, and also enjoys acting as an evangelist for big data and NoSQL technologies. With his rich technical experience, Saurabh has helped some of the largest financial and industrial companies in USA build their large product suites and distributed applications from scratch. He shares his personal experiences with technology at http://saurzcode.in. Saurabh has also reviewed books by Packt Publishing, Apache Camel Essentials and Java EE 7 Development with NetBeans 8, in the past.
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ELK Stack implementations


The ELK community is quite large, and it's growing rapidly as it is gaining more and more attention. Let's take a look at some of the already existing successful ELK Stack implementations.

ELK Stack at LinkedIn

LinkedIn is a business oriented social networking site, which is mainly used for professional networking. LinkedIn was launched in May 5, 2003. As of March 2015, LinkedIn reports more than 364 million acquired users, in more than 200 countries and territories.

Refer to http://www.slideshare.net/TinLe1/elk-atlinked-in.

Problem statement

LinkedIn has millions of multiple data centers, tens of thousands of servers, hundreds of billions of log records. It is a challenge to log, index, search, store, visualize, and analyze all of these logs all day, every day. Also, security in terms of access control, storage, and transport has to be maintained. As data grows, the system will scale to more data centers, more servers, and will produce even more logs. It needs an efficient...

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Saurabh Chhajed

Saurabh Chhajed is a technologist with vast professional experience in building Enterprise applications that span across product and service industries. He has experience building some of the largest recommender engines using big data analytics and machine learning, and also enjoys acting as an evangelist for big data and NoSQL technologies. With his rich technical experience, Saurabh has helped some of the largest financial and industrial companies in USA build their large product suites and distributed applications from scratch. He shares his personal experiences with technology at http://saurzcode.in. Saurabh has also reviewed books by Packt Publishing, Apache Camel Essentials and Java EE 7 Development with NetBeans 8, in the past.
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