--- title: QCon London: gRPC Migration Automation at LinkedIn description: LinkedIn used AI to successfully migrate 50,000 production endpoints from Rest.li to gRPC in a shorter time period without business interruption. The migration... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/qcon-london-grpc-migration-automation-at-linkedin-8smrozttk twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: QCon London: gRPC Migration Automation at LinkedIn | daily.dev og:description: LinkedIn used AI to successfully migrate 50,000 production endpoints from Rest.li to gRPC in a shorter time period without business interruption. The migration... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/qcon-london-grpc-migration-automation-at-linkedin-8smrozttk og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/8sMRozTtk.png og:image:alt: QCon London: gRPC Migration Automation at LinkedIn og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # QCon London: gRPC Migration Automation at LinkedIn **[InfoQ](https://daily.dev/sources/infoq)** · 2 min read · 3 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary LinkedIn used AI to successfully migrate 50,000 production endpoints from Rest.li to gRPC in a shorter time period without business interruption. The migration involved changing 20 million lines of code across 2,000 services. gRPC offers advantages over Rest.li in terms of performance, support for streaming and deadlines, and broad programming language support. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#linkedin](https://daily.dev/tags/linkedin), [#grpc](https://daily.dev/tags/grpc) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/qcon-london-grpc-migration-automation-at-linkedin-8smrozttk) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"QCon London: gRPC Migration Automation at LinkedIn","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/qcon-london-grpc-migration-automation-at-linkedin-8smrozttk","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/qcon-london-grpc-migration-automation-at-linkedin-8smrozttk"},"datePublished":"2024-04-12T06:04:51.484Z","dateModified":"2024-05-09T08:39:06.345Z","description":"LinkedIn used AI to successfully migrate 50,000 production endpoints from Rest.li to gRPC in a shorter time period without business interruption. The migration...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/971cec5d1ed8a4711e8fd97c9a2565af?_a=AQAEufR","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/971cec5d1ed8a4711e8fd97c9a2565af?_a=AQAEufR","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"InfoQ","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"InfoQ","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/afc3bced3e1e4b188dd9127017a60e0c","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/infoq"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/qcon-london-grpc-migration-automation-at-linkedin-8smrozttk","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":3},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"linkedin,grpc","timeRequired":"PT2M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"InfoQ","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/infoq"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"QCon London: gRPC Migration Automation at LinkedIn"}]} ```