XLNT is the end-to-end A/B testing platform used at LinkedIn to not only solve the day-to-day A/B testing needs across the company, but also sophisticated use cases that are prevalent in a social network setting. With all the lessons learned from using the platform, we decided to take an in-depth look at how we approach...

LinkedIn’s publishing platform gives professionals a way to share their personal opinions about topical professional news and interests, including our engineers. Here, we regularly round up some of the best pieces written recently by LinkedIn engineers. "Building Communities" By Todd Palino, Staff Site Reliability Engineer at LinkedIn ...

Fast growth is a happy problem to have, but not an easy one to solve. LinkedIn has experienced rapid member growth over the years and many of our engineers have witnessed the corresponding explosive data growth in awe. Until recently, LinkedIn relied on a traditional RDBMS as a primary data store for most of our data. Hundreds of terabytes...

Genesis Less than a year ago, we introduced Gobblin, a unified ingestion framework, to the world of Big Data. Since then, we’ve shared ongoing progress through a talk at Hadoop Summit and a paper at VLDB. Today, we’re announcing the open source release of Gobblin 0.5.0, a big milestone that includes Apache Kafka integration. Our motivations...

Co-authors: Teja Thotapalli Brian Jue Tu Tran Sandhya Ramu As LinkedIn continues to grow in size...

In the last four years, we’ve dramatically revamped the way we release software. One of the leaders of our tools team Jens Pillgram-Larsen shares what changed, what the future will hold and how his team evolved along the way. LinkedIn Tools Engineer Looks to Revolutionize Software Development from LinkedIn toolsengineering...