• 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...

  • Upscaling LinkedIn's Profile Datastore While Reducing Costs

    May 9, 2023

    Co-Authors: Estella Pham and Guanlin Lu At peak, LinkedIn serves over 1.4 million member profiles per second. The number of requests to our storage infrastructure doubles every year. In the past, we addressed latency, throughput and cost issues by migrating off Oracle onto Espresso, an open-source document platform, and adding more nodes. We are now at the point...

  • How LIquid Connects Everything So Our Members Can Do...

    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’...

  • How LinkedIn Adopted A GraphQL Architecture for Product...

    April 25, 2023

    With the widespread adoption of Rest.li since its inception in 2013, LinkedIn has built thousands of microservices to enable the...

  • Viral spam content detection at LinkedIn

    April 20, 2023

    On the LinkedIn platform, members from around the world share their knowledge, perspectives, and discuss topics important to them. Our...