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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In the previous blog posts of our “Rebuilding messaging” series, we shared the process of how we designed the system from high-level product and engineering requirements, and how we bootstrapped the data. In this post, we’ll explore why we made extensibility a core aspect of our messaging platform, what that meant for our partner teams, and how we got it done....
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- Architecture,
- Product Design
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Co-authors: Scott Meyer, Andrew Carter, and Andrew Rodriguez Editor’s note: In this two-part blog series, we introduce LIquid, a new graph database built by LinkedIn to support human real-time querying of the economic graph. It is a complete implementation of the relational model that supports fast, constant-time traversal of graph edges with a relational graph...
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- scale,
- infrastructure,
- knowledge graph,
- Data
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Co-authors: Pradhan Cadabam and Jingxuan (Rex) Zhang Messaging has been a core part of Linkedin since the day we launched and our...
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- Architecture,
- Product Design
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Co-authors: Viranch Mehta, Jon Sorenson, Samir Jafferali As LinkedIn has grown to more than 690 million members, we’ve expanded our...
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- scale,
- infrastructure,
- SRE
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Co-authors: Tyler Grant, Armen Hamstra, Cliff Snyder Over the last five years, the number of messages sent on LinkedIn has quadrupled....
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- infrastructure,
- Architecture,
- Product Design