Presentation: Software Development & Architecture @ LinkedIn
With over 300 Million members worldwide, LinkedIn is an indispensable means to connect professionals the world over. By mining data from its ever-growing professional network, LinkedIn recommends jobs, connections, skills, and ads to its members. Using this same information, LinkedIn has proven itself a reliable hiring tool for companies in search of skilled talent.
Through a series of acquisitions over the past 3 years, LinkedIn has grown its repository of user-generated content in hopes that its users will spend more time online and thereby help LinkedIn’s ranking systems better understand and monetize them. As LinkedIn continues to grow in popularity and features, what architectural and development practices has it adopted to keep pace? Come to this talk to learn more.
Tracks
Covering innovative topics
Monday, 3 November
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Architectures You've Always Wondered about
The newest and biggest Internet architectures
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Real World Functional
Putting functional programming concepts to work in the real world.
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The Future of Mobile
The future of mobile and performance improvements
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Continuous Delivery: From Heroics to Becoming Invisible
Continuous Delivery philosophies, cultures, hiccups, and best practices.
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Unleashing the Power of Streaming Data
This track explores a variety of use-cases, platforms, and techniques for processing and analyzing stream data from the companies deploying them at scale!
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Sponsored Solutions Track I
Tuesday, 4 November
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Engineering for Product Success
Architectures that make products more successful
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Reactive Service Architecture
Reactive, Responsive, Fault Tolerant and More.
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Modern CS In the Real World
How modern CS tackles problems in the real world.
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Applied Machine Learning and Data Science
Understand your big big data!
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Deploying at Scale
Containerizing Applications, Discovering Services, and Deploying to the Grid.
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Sponsored Solutions Track II
Wednesday, 5 November
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Beyond Hadoop
Emerging Big Data Frameworks and Technology
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Scalable Microservice Architectures
This track addresses the ways companies with hundreds of fine-grained web-services (e.g. Netflix, LinkedIn) manage complexity!
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Java at the Cutting Edge
The latest and greatest in the Java ecosystem
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Engineering culture
Successes and failures in creating an engineering culture.
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Next gen HTML5 and JS
How Web Components, the Future of CSS, and more are changing the web.
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Sponsored Solutions Track III