LinkedIn at QCon 2009

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 recent feature announcements, tips and tricks, or success stories.

Over fifty million people use LinkedIn to find, connect and collaborate with professionals worldwide, do business and build their careers. It is the mission of LinkedIn's engineering and operations teams to build and scale LinkedIn systems, services and develop features and functionality that makes the LinkedIn service effective and delightful to use.

Apart from traditional challenges of running a high-traffic 24/7 service, we are also faced with the unique problems of scaling the professional graph, making all our services interoperable while respecting privacy and visibility rules along that graph. Another challenge is making sure we present to busy professionals the most relevant information possible - whether it's the network updates stream, search results or other content they choose to share. LinkedIn engineers and architects recently shared some of the technologies we are working on during QCon San Francisco 2009 conference.

Jay Kreps talked about distributed scaling storage at LinkedIn in his presentation - Project Voldemort: Scaling Simple Storage At LinkedIn.

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