Co-authors: Junkai Xue and Hunter Lee   Stateless tasks are widely used for serving large-scale data processing systems. Lots of requests were made by systems, which rely on Apache Helix, for a stateless task management feature to be added to Apache Helix. Recently, our team decided to explore new ways to manage stateless tasks, in addition to our ongoing work...

Co-authors: Gungor Polatkan and Romer Rosales   In December, we attended the artificial intelligence and machine learning conference NeurIPS 2018 in Montreal, Canada. In this post, we share our personal observations from the event, explain the trends in artificial intelligence research, and provide an overview of specific hot topics in addressing the problems in...

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...