Posts by Roshan Sumbaly

LinkedIn has a number of data-driven features, including People You May Know, Jobs you may be interested in, and LinkedIn Skills. Building these features typically involves two phases: (a) offline computation and (b) online serving. As an early adopter of Hadoop, we've been able to scale the offline computation phase successfully. The difficult part has been...

I'm thrilled to announce that we have finally cut off a branch and are ready to do the 0.90 open source release for Project Voldemort. For folks still enchanted by the Potter mania, no, I am not talking about Harry's nemesis. Project Voldemort is an open-source distributed key-value store being used here at LinkedIn and at various other companies. This is one of...