LinkedIn Engineering session at SD West 2008 – A follow up

Ruslan Belkin
Authored byRuslan Belkin

Co-founder and CEO at Jelled

March 9, 2008

I would like to thank everyone who attended our "Birds of a Feather" interactive presentation at SDWest 2008. For the first time our engineering organization had a chance to share the architecture and evolution of the LinkedIn system and stir a conversation with fellow engineers on developing a scalable social network. Here's an overview of some of the contributions from my colleagues at LinkedIn:

Nicholas Dellamaggiore presented the timeline of LinkedIn's system architecture from 0 to 20 million members, and discussed some of the challenges we encountered.

Sean Dawson talked about the development, the architecture and the evolution of Network Updates Service (the feed aggregation and distribution system that supports the Network Updates feature you see on you home page).

Yours truly went about talking of LinkedIn engineering methodology and agile processes and tools we were employing inside LinkedIn engineering.

We were also lucky to be able to have with us - Jean-Luc Vaillant, our CTO and co-founder, who talked about LinkedIn's next generation architecture.

The conversation continues...

As an engineer, whether you work in a big organization on a challenging project or trying to start your own company - we hope you have been able to benefit from this talk.

We have also tried to engage in a conversation with "birds of a feather" on how challenging and complex  some of the technical and engineering challenges are, especially as we continue our fast pace of growth as a leading social networking site.

On that note let me continue to point out similar events we'll continue this conversation at. If you're at JavaOne 2008 between May 6 and 9 at Moscone Center in San Francisco, don't miss the following:

Come and talk to us then! Thanks for listening and for talking back!

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