One of the core aspirations of the engineering teams at LinkedIn is to delight our members with instantaneous page load experiences. To achieve this, we strive for optimal configurations and settings across the different layers of our software stack. Recently, we completed a large-scale experiment in reusing TCP/IP connections and found a perceivable drop in the...
Performance Articles
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- Topics:
- Performance,
- site speed
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“Make LinkedIn feel instantaneous” is a mantra our performance team lives by to deliver the best possible experience to our members. We are constantly on the lookout for ways to improve our site speed and user experience, be it through optimizing our infrastructure and edge, accelerating our web and mobile applications’ performance, or tuning our systems and...
- Topics:
- Performance,
- experimentation,
- machine learning
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At LinkedIn, we use data to improve our members’ experiences while using our site. On the video team, we value metrics that yield insight on how long our videos take to load, why certain videos draw more attention than others, and how our members tend to interact with videos across web, iOS, and Android. In short, the various data points collected during video...
- Topics:
- Video,
- Performance,
- NYC Engineering
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Once per quarter, the LinkedIn Performance Engineering meetup brings together engineers passionate about performance and efficiency...
- Topics:
- Performance,
- events
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A couple of months ago, we shared details about LinkedIn Lite's architecture, its evolution as a light-weight mobile web experience,...
- Topics:
- Performance,
- Mobile,
- site speed,
- Product Design
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LinkedIn has recently experienced issues with handling peak load in FollowFeed, our custom timeline service that powers the organic...
- Topics:
- Performance,
- FollowFeed