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Articles posted in January 2011

  • Speaker Series: Transformational Change through Social Media

    Steve Cadigan, January 13, 2011

    Check out the entire video interview with Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bernice King here. This series of posts features select interviews, speeches and presentations held as part of the LinkedIn Speaker Series. The interview below was held at our Mountain View campus last week, during the visit of Martin Luther King III.

    In 1964, my Dad met Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He was chosen, in fact, to drive Dr. King to the airport after a rousing sermon in St. Louis. This happened just one day before the announcement that the iconic leader was to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Such encounters with history are rare, so I was thrilled to learn, just last week, that our CEO Jeff Weiner would have an opportunity to interview Dr. King’s son and daughter during their tour of Silicon Valley.

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  • Resumes and Hackdays

    Yevgeniy Brikman, January 12, 2011

    Stop for a second and consider this question: where is your resume?

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  • Open-sourcing Kafka, LinkedIn’s distributed message queue

    Jun Rao, January 11, 2011

    Code Alert! This is a part of our continuing series on Engineering at LinkedIn. If this isn’t your cup of Java, check back tomorrow for regular LinkedIn programming. In the meanwhile, check out some of our latest product features, tips and tricks, or user stories. - Ed.

    We are pleased to open-source another piece of infrastructure software developed at LinkedIn, Kafka, a persistent, efficient, distributed message queue. Kafka is primarily intended for tracking various activity events generated on LinkedIn’s website, such as pageviews, keywords typed in a search query, ads presented, etc. Those activity events are critical for monitoring user engagement as well as improving relevancy in various other products. Each day, a substantially large number of such events are generated. Therefore, we need a solution that’s scalable and incurs low overhead.

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