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The next Scala BASE (Bay Area Scala Enthusiasts) meeting will be held at LinkedIn, on Monday, July 11 from 6:30 to 9:00pm. This talk is open to the public and will include presentations from Dick Wall... | Read More
Play framework and async I/O
07/05/2011
A few weeks ago, I had the chance to evaluate the Play framework, a high-productivity Java web framework. The thing that really caught my eye was Play's support for asynchronous programming,... | Read More
Eric the Intern: the Origin of inGraphs
06/30/2011
Eric Wong tells you about the origin of inGraphs, the software that LinkedIn uses to visualize site performance.
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A day in the life: Adil Aijaz, Principal Software Engineer
06/27/2011
Our engineers at LinkedIn are creating a valuable user experience for over 100 million professionals everyday. With LinkedIn growing at an unprecedented rate, we are always looking for talented... | Read More
Recommender Systems: The Art and Science of Matching Items to Users
06/27/2011
Drop by LinkedIn Headquarters on Wednesday, July 6 for an open data talk by Deepak Agarwal of Yahoo! Research called "Recommender Systems: The Art and Science of Matching Items to Users".... | Read More
Building LinkedIn in an opensocial container
06/22/2011
Since this is my first blog post, I thought I’d start with where it all began, a summer internship at LinkedIn, in June of 2010. I love Ruby on Rails and my summer project here was to write a... | Read More
MongoDB: An Introduction
06/20/2011
SVForum Software Architecture and Platform SIG is hosting an exciting talk about MongoDB this Wednesday, 06/22 at 7pm. The talk will be held at LinkedIn Headquarters, 2027 Stierlin Court, Mountain... | Read More
Calling all Interns for LinkedIn’s First Hackday Challenge
06/17/2011
We’re thrilled to be hosting our first ever Silicon Valley-wide Intern Hackday.
From Friday, July 29th 7PM to Saturday, July 30th 7PM, engineering interns around the Bay Area will gather at our... | Read More
Project Kafka, a distributed publish-subscribe messaging system, reaches v0.6
06/16/2011
Announcing the v0.6 release of Kafka, LinkedIn's distributed publish-subscribe messaging system. It is open-sourced under the Apache 2.0 license and also submitted to be an Apache incubator project. A... | Read More
Tuning Java Garbage Collection for Web Services
06/13/2011
Why am I getting frequent GC pauses? How do I avoid long GC pauses? Concurrent mode failure - how bad is that? In the spirit of teaching people to fish, I thought I'd get together a blog post on how... | Read More
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