optimization Articles

  • Accelerating Code Delivery By 97% With Yarn Workspaces

    December 15, 2022

    As teams and applications experience growth, it’s critical to adopt architectures that optimize for clear code ownership, build isolation, and provide efficient delivery of code. While many projects start small with just one or two repositories (for example, frontend and backend), this approach often becomes difficult to maintain as the codebases expand. At...

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    Air Traffic Controller: Member-First Notifications at LinkedIn

    March 1, 2018

    Co-authors: Changji Shi and Adriel Fuad LinkedIn’s mission is to connect the world's professionals to make them more productive and successful. Notifications are a powerful way to realize this mission by helping members never miss a conversation or opportunity that matters to them, whether that’s recommendations on jobs, a daily rundown of trending news, or...

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    ODP: An Infrastructure for On-Demand Service Profiling

    January 24, 2017

    Coauthors: Tao Feng, John Nicol, Chen Li, Peinan Chen, Hari Ramachandra LinkedIn has built hundreds of application services, with thousands of instances running in data centers. Optimizing the performance of these services can dramatically improve user experience and reduce operational costs, and profilers are commonly used to help achieve this. LinkedIn’s...

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    How Experimentation Helped LinkedIn Improve Email...

    October 28, 2015

    This is the second in a two-part series about how LinkedIn’s different business units use A/B testing and XLNT, our A/B testing...

  • Fine Tuning Premium Products Through A/B Testing

    October 27, 2015

    This is the first in a two-part series about how LinkedIn’s different business units use A/B testing and XLNT, our A/B testing...

  • Optimizing Linux Memory Management for Low-latency /...

    October 7, 2013

    Co-author: Cuong Tran Table of Contents Introduction Setting up the context Reproducing and understanding Linux's zone reclaim...