We regularly play host to a series of meetups here at the LinkedIn office in the Empire State Building. Open to the community, these events cover a range of topics—from distributed systems, web and mobile development, to machine learning—and are a great way for engineers to meet, share notes, and learn from each other on various technical topics. At our latest...

Last month was the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in Houston, Texas, and it’s known as the world's largest gathering of women technologists. I was lucky enough to attend this year’s event on behalf of LinkedIn. On the second day of the conference, I was scheduled to give a talk about LinkedIn’s load testing and disaster recovery strategies in...