On Aug. 15, 2016, the Machine Learning Algorithm team at LinkedIn gave a hands-on tutorial on how to build recommender systems using our recently open-sourced machine learning library Photon ML at the KDD conference. We were excited to see a large crowd that could not fit into the room gathered to learn this topic and the strong interest in the data mining...

In software development, writing integration tests is sometimes an afterthought. Many people think exclusively in terms of unit tests, and perhaps many more don't think about automated tests at all. Thus, the very idea of writing integration tests that are maintainable, manageable, and scalable may seem foreign to most. I personally had never felt the...

Our ongoing focus on improving the gender diversity of our employee​ base​ continues to ​​have meaningful impact, with​ gains in women's representation in ​both ​technical and leadership roles​ over the last several years​. The Women’s Initiative ​(WIN) ​within our Global Sales team and the Women in Technology initiative ​(WIT) ​within our Engineering and...