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Unifying the LinkedIn Search Experience

05/21/2013

Head of Search Relevance

LinkedIn since 04.10

Recently, we launched a significant redesign of the LinkedIn search experience through the Unified Search platform. In this blog post, I'll introduce you to the technology behind three new features in... | Read More

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The technology behind EatIn: Android apps in Scala, iOS apps, and Play Framework web services

04/29/2013

Terry Lei

Software Engineer

LinkedIn since 01.13

This blog post is the story of how 6 University of Waterloo "Winterns" managed to build the EatIn Suite - which consists of 3 web services, 2 web apps, and 2 mobile apps - in just 3 weeks.... | Read More

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LinkedIn Mobile: Introducing Personalized Navigation

04/18/2013

Akhilesh Gupta

Senior Software Engineer

LinkedIn since 07.11

LinkedIn's new iPhone and Android apps introduce a new personalized navigation experience to help members explore new functionality and quickly get to the areas they access the most.... | Read More

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Mobile RecommendationsNavigationHadoopPersonalization

LinkedIn Open Tech Talk: Grant Ingersoll on What's New in Lucene and Solr

03/31/2013

Daniel Tunkelang

Head of Query Understanding

LinkedIn since 12.10

LinkedIn Engineering will be hosting a talk by Grant Ingersoll at LinkedIn on April 9, 2013 at 4 PM. Grant will be talking about the latest and greatest in Lucene and Solr 4, particularly the... | Read More

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Play Framework: async I/O without the thread pool and callback hell

03/27/2013

Yevgeniy Brikman

Staff Software Engineer

LinkedIn since 09.09

The Play Framework is fully asynchronous, making it easy to build scalable, performant web services without getting into thread pool hell. However, working with asynchronous I/O requires a new... | Read More

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Play Open SourceWeb FrameworkScalaAsync

White Elephant: The Hadoop Tool You Never Knew You Needed

03/20/2013

Matthew Hayes

Staff Software Engineer

LinkedIn since 09.10

As the use of Hadoop grows in an organization, scheduling, capacity planning, and billing become critical concerns. These are all open problems in the Hadoop space, and today, we’re happy to... | Read More

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Announcing the Voldemort 1.3 Open Source Release

03/19/2013

Vinoth Chandar

Senior Software Engineer

LinkedIn since 11.11

I am excited to announce the availability of the Voldemort 1.3.0 Open Source release. In 2012, Voldemort experienced unprecedented levels of traffic growth at LinkedIn and we have done our best to... | Read More

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Voldemort Open SourceDistributed Systems

Front End Developers United Meetup: Using Dust.js at Paypal and LinkedIn

03/18/2013

Seth McLaughlin

Senior Software Engineer

LinkedIn since 07.11

Join us for the next Front End Developers United meetup where Jeff Harrell of Paypal and Veena Basavaraj of LinkedIn will talk about how their companies are using Dust.js, a JavaScript templating... | Read More

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Venus.js, a flexible and extensible execution environment for JavaScript unit testing

03/12/2013

Seth McLaughlin

Senior Software Engineer

LinkedIn since 07.11

At LinkedIn, our JavaScript codebase has been growing very rapidly. To test all this code, we created Venus.js, a flexible and extensible execution environment for JavaScript unit testing. ... | Read More

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JavaScript unit testingtest driven developmenttools

Decoupling translation from source code

02/28/2013

Ursula Huang

Software Engineer

LinkedIn since 03.11

To accelerate iteration speed when working with localized text, the International Engineering team implemented a system to dynamically deploy translated content strings to services in production. The... | Read More

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Unifying the LinkedIn Search Experience

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The technology behind EatIn: Android apps in Scala, iOS apps, and Play Framework web services

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LinkedIn Mobile: Introducing Personalized Navigation

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LinkedIn Open Tech Talk: Grant Ingersoll on What's New in Lucene and Solr

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Play Framework: async I/O without the thread pool and callback hell

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White Elephant: The Hadoop Tool You Never Knew You Needed

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Announcing the Voldemort 1.3 Open Source Release

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Front End Developers United Meetup: Using Dust.js at Paypal and LinkedIn

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Venus.js, a flexible and extensible execution environment for JavaScript unit testing

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Decoupling translation from source code

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