Posts tagged with LinkedIn
So, You Want to Move to Microservices?
As I reflected back on my time at LinkedIn, I put together a brief history of its scaling story. We had done the (now) classic migration from monolith to microservices. Just like oh I dunno, Amazon, Google, eBay, Twitter, Netflix, and my current employer Uber (to name a few). And why not? Mic...
The Wisdom of David Henke
A hero to the engineering and operations world, here’s a collection of some of David Henke’s greatest quotes and sayings.
Android Performance Improvements for Slideshare
A post I co-wrote on the LinkedIn Engineering Blog that documents the Slideshare team’s work improving the performance of our Android App. To build a compelling, smooth, and crash-free experience, we needed to improve our app under the hood. We focused our optimizations on three areas: image ...
A Brief History of Scaling LinkedIn
A post I wrote on the LinkedIn Engineering Blog that tells the story of how LinkedIn scaled over the years. It touches on the larger tech initiatives and key milestones throughout. Throughout my time at LinkedIn, I was involved in various tech initiatives across the company. I also was fortun...
Field of Study Explorer - Data Insights for Students
A post I wrote on the LinkedIn Engineering Blog that documents my team’s work building powerful searching tools for students and alumni. This post walks through how we standardize our profile data, leverages the latest in LinkedIn search technology, and provides a powerful visual to LinkedIn...
Building LinkedIn University Pages
A post I wrote on the LinkedIn Engineering Blog that documents my team’s work building Unversity Pages for LinkedIn. This post surveys the engineering and data pipelines that goes into a modern LinkedIn product like University Pages.
Engineering the New LinkedIn Profile
This post I originally wrote on the LinkedIn Engineering Blog that documents my team’s journey rewriting LinkedIn’s main member profile page. It’s a combination of a brand new design, numerous new product features, and a brand new frontend architecture. This architecture uses a custom Java we...