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 like “you are only as good as your lieutenants” and “what part of 24/7 don’t you understand?”.
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.
A Brief History of Scaling LinkedIn
LinkedIn's scaling journey began with a single application and evolved into a microservices architecture, enhancing scalability and reliability. This transition involved the introduction of technologies like Kafka for data streaming and Rest.li for API interactions, showcasing the need for ev...
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...