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LinkedIn Translation: What's in a Name?

12/07/2011

Principal Software Engineer

LinkedIn since 11.06

Keeping this bar high for translations can be as much of a technical challenge as a linguistic one. In this post, I'll tell you about some of the subtleties with handling names across many languages... | Read More

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Quick Deploy: a distributed systems approach to developer productivity

12/05/2011

Adam Cataldo

Senior Software Engineer

LinkedIn since 10.10

In this blog post, I'll tell you about Quick Deploy, a hackday project that uses a distributed systems approach to dramatically increase developer productivity. ... | Read More

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Blazing fast node.js: 10 performance tips from LinkedIn Mobile

12/01/2011

Shravya Garlapati

Software Engineer

LinkedIn since 10.10

In this post, we’ll tell you how we make LinkedIn's Node.js mobile server fast. Here are our top 10 performance takeaways:... | Read More

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Veterans Hackday Finalists

11/16/2011

Yevgeniy Brikman

Principal Software Engineer

LinkedIn since 09.09

Last Friday, we kicked off the first ever Veterans Hackday. Today, we went through the 44 amazing submissions and picked the finalists.... | Read More

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Scala BASE meetup at LinkedIn on November 14

11/14/2011

Dhananjay Ragade

Principal Software Engineer

LinkedIn since 09.07

The next Scala BASE (Bay Area Scala Enthusiasts) meeting will be held at LinkedIn, on Monday, November 14, from 6:30 to 9:00pm. This talk is open to the public and will include presentations from Mark... | Read More

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Veterans Hackday 2011

11/09/2011

Yevgeniy Brikman

Principal Software Engineer

LinkedIn since 09.09

On Veterans Day, 11/11/11, LinkedIn will kick off the first ever Veterans Hackday. We are calling all hackers to work together and create projects that can improve any aspect of a veterans life. ... | Read More

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User Engagement Powered By Apache Pig and Hadoop

11/02/2011

Hien Luu

Sr. Software Engineer

LinkedIn since 11.10

This blog post tells the story of how you can use Apache Pig and Hadoop to turn terabytes of data into user engagement.... | Read More

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Continuous Integration for Mobile

10/26/2011

Joseph Chow

Senior Software Engineer

LinkedIn since 03.10

LinkedIn just launched a brand new mobile experience on a wide variety of platforms, including native apps, HTML5 webapps and a Node.js mobile server. I this post, I'll tell you how LinkedIn's mobile... | Read More

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Tech Talk Video: Prof. John Ousterhout on RAMCloud

10/25/2011

Kapil Surlaker

Principal Software Engineer

LinkedIn since 07.10

A couple weeks ago, Professor John Ousterhout visited LinkedIn to give a tech talk called... | Read More

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Ranking live streams of data

10/17/2011

John Kristian

Senior Software Engineer

LinkedIn since 02.09

There are over 1 million groups on LinkedIn. When working with this volume of data, how can we rank group discussions so that the most "interesting" ones appear at the top?... | Read More

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