Developer Productivity Articles

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    How LinkedIn turned to real-time feedback for developer tooling

    January 12, 2021

    Over the last year, we have been using real-time feedback to evolve our tooling and provide a more productive experience for LinkedIn's developers. It’s helped us double our feedback participation, and more importantly, better tailor our recommendations and improvements. For any engineering organization looking to improve developer experiences, the following...

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    How LinkedIn scales compatibility testing

    October 28, 2020

    Co-authors: Nima Dini and Dan Sully Introduction LinkedIn has 12,000 Multirepo codebases, referred to as multiproducts, which represent individual software components developed by our engineering team across the globe. Every day, thousands of code changes are pushed through our Continuous Integration (CI) pipeline. Our ecosystem is rapidly evolving and we have...

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    Production testing with dark canaries

    September 10, 2020

    The internet software industry has moved away from long development cycles and dedicated quality assurance (QA) stages, toward a fast-paced continuous-integration/continuous-delivery (CI/CD) pipeline, where new code is quickly written, committed, and pushed to user-facing applications and services. Doing so has dramatically increased iteration speeds, and at...

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    How LinkedIn handles merging code in high-velocity...

    April 30, 2020

    Editor's note: This blog has been updated. The product ecosystem at LinkedIn is vast, and managing its infrastructure can be daunting....

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    Building with agility for our members in times of need

    April 23, 2020

    The needs of our members and customers have evolved rapidly in recent weeks, and we’ve been focused on evolving alongside them to meet...

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    Data Sentinel: Automating data validation

    March 10, 2020

    Co-authors: Arun Swami, Sriram Vasudevan, Sailesh Mittal, Jiefu Zheng, Joojay Huyn, Audrey Alpizar, Changling Huang, Maneesh Varshney,...