When adopting a new language at scale, there are many different factors to consider because things can change dramatically. For many, choosing a language can arguably rely on personal preference, but at LinkedIn, we have a Foundation team tasked with evaluating the impact of such fundamental technical decisions. Recently, we underwent the process of evaluating...

One of the core aspirations of the engineering teams at LinkedIn is to delight our members with instantaneous page load experiences. To achieve this, we strive for optimal configurations and settings across the different layers of our software stack. Recently, we completed a large-scale experiment in reusing TCP/IP connections and found a perceivable drop in the...

Co-authors: Mars Lan, Seyi Adebajo, Shirshanka Das As the operator of the world’s largest professional network and the Economic Graph, LinkedIn’s Data team is constantly working on scaling its infrastructure to meet the demands of our ever-growing big data ecosystem. As the data grows in volume and richness, it becomes increasingly challenging for data...