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# How LinkedIn Serves 5 Million User Profiles per Second

**[Quastor Daily](https://daily.dev/sources/quastor)** · 15 min read · 162 upvotes · 12 comments

## Summary

LinkedIn has over 930 million users in 200 countries. At peak load, the site is serving nearly 5 million user profile pages a second. To manage the increase in traffic, LinkedIn incorporated Couchbase into their stack as a caching layer. They’ve been able to serve 99% of requests with this caching system.

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**@devgrammer** · 2 upvotes

> very well written and explained article, Thank you !!

**@tejap** · 1 upvotes

> Great info

**@eyalc4** · 1 upvotes

> Loved it!

**@jackied** · 1 upvotes

> Great writeup!

**@nable** · 1 upvotes

> Very well written

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Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#database](https://daily.dev/tags/database), [#backend](https://daily.dev/tags/backend), [#linkedin](https://daily.dev/tags/linkedin), [#nosql](https://daily.dev/tags/nosql), [#couchbase](https://daily.dev/tags/couchbase), [#appwrite](https://daily.dev/tags/appwrite)

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