Authors: Karthik Ramgopal and Aman Gupta Each day, LinkedIn serves billions of member requests across all our platforms, including our web and mobile apps. It’s important that these member requests—such as viewing a company page, reading a LinkedIn article, or viewing network connections—are fulfilled quickly and that members aren’t faced with slow page load...

When we started designing mobile infrastructure for the new LinkedIn flagship mobile app last year, we wanted to completely rethink the data pipeline. The data pipeline abstracts away all the underlying complexity of data flow between the app and server, and exposes an API that is used by all parts of the app to communicate with the front end server. Since the...