https://www.infoq.com InfoQ LinkedIn News feed https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/05/linkedin-kernel-lock-freeze/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=LinkedIn-news <img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2026/05/linkedin-kernel-lock-freeze/en/headerimage/linkedin-kernel-lock-freeze-1779903552098.jpg"/><p>When LinkedIn engineers encountered short-lived, recurring outages where the database powering their user feed became unavailable and then recovered without leaving helpful traces, they had to devise a novel approach to uncover the root cause using off-CPU profiling with eBPF.</p> <i>By Sergio De Simone</i> Profilers Availability Memory Monitoring Linux Rust eBPF LinkedIn Development Architecture & Design news Wed, 27 May 2026 18:00:00 GMT https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/05/linkedin-kernel-lock-freeze/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=LinkedIn-news Sergio De Simone 2026-05-27T18:00:00Z /news/2026/05/linkedin-kernel-lock-freeze/en