infrastructure Articles

  • From the Economic Graph to Economic Insights: Building the Infrastructure for Delivering Labor Market Insights from LinkedIn Data

    June 2, 2023

    Authors: Dr. Patrick Driscoll and Akash Kaura LinkedIn’s vision is to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Since its inception in 2015, the Economic Graph Research and Insights (EGRI) team has worked to make this vision a reality by generating labor market insights such as: Real-time economic and workforce intelligence & insights...

  • Metal as a Service (MaaS): DIY server-management at scale

    May 11, 2023

    Guaranteeing that our servers are continually upgraded to secure and vetted operating systems is one major step that we take to ensure our members and customers can access LinkedIn to look for new roles, access new learning programs, or exchange knowledge with other professionals. LinkedIn has quite a large fleet of servers on-premise that depend on internal...

  • How LIquid Connects Everything So Our Members Can Do Anything

    May 2, 2023

    Imagine a tool that can store and connect all the information you need to make decisions and solve problems. Most people would say it’s nice to think about, but not yet possible. The good news is this tool already exists - and it’s called a graph database. At LinkedIn, technologies like graph databases are essential to powering today's platform, while being...

  • Scaling Salt for Remote Execution to support LinkedIn Infra...

    April 18, 2023

    At LinkedIn, site engineers like to automate operational tasks at various infrastructure layers to minimize manual interventions,...

  • Reducing Apache Spark Application Dependencies Upload by 99%

    March 9, 2023

    Co-authors: Shu Wang, Biao He, and Minchu Yang At LinkedIn, Apache Spark is our primary compute engine for offline data analytics such...

  • Unifying Messaging Experiences across LinkedIn

    January 26, 2023

    Co-authors: Michele Ursino and Joe Xue Introduction At LinkedIn, we believe that an opportunity can arise from just one conversation,...