Linkedin Blog

This is a part of our continuing series on engineering and analytics at LinkedIn. If this isn’t your cup of Java, check back tomorrow for regular LinkedIn programming. Else, check out our Engineering Blog  for more. - Ed.

There are over 1 million groups on LinkedIn and millions of members join these groups every week. When working with this volume of data, we ran into an interesting problem: how can we rank group discussions so that the most “interesting” ones appear at the top? What algorithm could handle the huge stream of activity – new discussions, comments, likes, views, follows and shares – to produce an order that would work for active and inactive groups as well as for active and inactive members?

This is a part of our continuing series on engineering and analytics at LinkedIn. If this isn’t your cup of Java, check back tomorrow for regular LinkedIn programming. Else, check out our Engineering Blog  for more. - Ed.

I’ve spent twenty years as an engineering director and vice president, managing and mentoring engineering leaders across Silicon Valley and international teams. Over the years, I’ve shipped many products, worked under some amazing leaders, and as a leader myself, written hundreds of performance reviews. During all this time, I’ve learned that great engineering leaders aren’t born; they are made. Or, to be more accurate, they seem to evolve, one step at a time, through four focus areas: technology, process, product and people.

Step 1: the Tech Guy

This is a part of our continuing series on engineering and analytics at LinkedIn. If this isn’t your cup of Java, check back tomorrow for regular LinkedIn programming. Else, check out our Engineering Blog. - Ed.

Sharing knowledge is part of our core culture at LinkedIn, whether it’s through hackdays or contributions to open-source projects. We actively participate in academic conferences, such as KDD, SIGIR, and WWW, and industry conferences such as OSCON and Strata.

Ed. One of the primary goals of the LinkedIn blog is to bring you the stories and people behind the LinkedIn products you love. Sometimes, separate categories of posts are popular enough that they get their own spin-off blog – thus the Engineering blog.

Here’s Avery Moon, Director of Engineering, on the launch of our new engineering blog.