Posts by Jakob Heuser

LinkedIn's engineering team builds state of the art systems and algorithms to connect the world's professionals to make them more productive and successful. Up and down the stack, from best of class distributed systems like Apache Kafka to cutting edge mobile frameworks and uncompromising machine learning infrastructure, LinkedIn engineering solves the hardest,...

At LinkedIn, we are rapidly evolving our front-end architecture with a whole lot of JavaScript: dust.js for templating, node.js for mobile, and JsTestDriver for our CI. Keeping all this JavaScript modular and managing the dependencies has become a critical issue. Unable to find a good solution that worked in the browser, we decided to build one ourselves. We are...

The recently launched Apply With LinkedIn plugin is a great way to reach out and capture quality candidates using the power of the LinkedIn profile. In this post, I'll tell you how it's also a professional plugin that is fast, compliant and runs on open technologies. Apply With LinkedIn lets candidates skip the long application forms, use their network to...