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    Productivity at Scale: How We Improved Build Time by 400% at LinkedIn

    July 19, 2018

    Co-authors: Szczepan Faber, Yiming Wang, Mihir Gandhi, Deep Majumder, and Irina Issayeva Introduction At LinkedIn, we have 500+ microservices (3,500 end-points), which make up various aspects of the software ecosystem. This translates to a significant number of web applications. In 2012, we added the Play Framework to our tech stack to build microservices and...

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    Pemberly at LinkedIn

    December 2, 2016

    Coauthors: Sarah Clatterbuck, Mark Pascual, Chad Hietala, Eugene O’Neill When setting out to re-imagine our flagship app and desktop web experiences last year, we wanted to make a move to a more modern technology stack. We were falling behind in a few areas and wanted to address the following points of concern: Responsiveness Modern web apps are typically...

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    Instant Messaging at LinkedIn: Scaling to Hundreds of Thousands of Persistent Connections on One Machine

    October 24, 2016

    Coauthor: Cliff Snyder We recently introduced Instant Messaging on LinkedIn, complete with typing indicators and read receipts. To make this happen, we needed a way to push data from the server to mobile and web clients over persistent connections instead of the traditional request-response paradigm that most modern applications are built on. In this post, we’ll...

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    Building the New Job Detail Page

    June 21, 2016

    Editor's note: This blog has been updated. When we recently launched the new job detail page, we introduced new insights for job...

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    Bringing a Modern Javascript Build Pipeline to LinkedIn

    January 20, 2016

    (Photo by surfglassy, shared via Creative Commons license) Co-author: Adam Miller At LinkedIn, our system for managing shared static...

  • How We Built LinkedIn Placements

    January 5, 2016

    Every year, six million students in Indian universities graduate from various disciplines and enter the job market. These new...