Co-authors: Gungor Polatkan and Romer Rosales   In December, we attended the artificial intelligence and machine learning conference NeurIPS 2018 in Montreal, Canada. In this post, we share our personal observations from the event, explain the trends in artificial intelligence research, and provide an overview of specific hot topics in addressing the problems in...

At LinkedIn, we use data to improve our members’ experiences while using our site. On the video team, we value metrics that yield insight on how long our videos take to load, why certain videos draw more attention than others, and how our members tend to interact with videos across web, iOS, and Android. In short, the various data points collected during video...

At LinkedIn, we have many different monitoring systems—each with its own role and granularity— ranging from quarterly reports about the business as a whole to the lowest levels of system-specific latency and availability. However, these systems don’t operate in vacuums—sometimes, issues or changes that are flagged by one system will go on to cause problems in...