A friend of mine used to get into heated debates all the time. This was before Twitter—well before. Now when you talk to him you would never be able to tell. I asked him to share with me his secret for how he was able to overcome that ur...

TL;DR Understanding algorithmic impact is critical to building a platform that serves hundreds of millions of listeners and creators every [...]

Some of the most common questions asked when it comes to work with performance are, How do you convince stakeholders [...]

Co-authors: David Lu, Hong Liu, Thomas Kwan, Christopher Harris, Weiping Si Many companies, including LinkedIn, have experienced exponential data growth ever since the Apache Hadoop adoption a decade ago. With a proliferation of self-ser...

Pair programming is one of the most important tools we use while mentoring early talent in the Dev Degree program. It’s an agile software development technique where two people work together, either to share context, solve a problem, or ...

We are proud to announce the open sourcing of Venice, LinkedIn’s derived data platform that powers more than 1800 of our datasets and is leveraged by over 300 distinct applications. Venice is a high-throughput, low-latency, highly-availa...

By Carlos Pereira, James Lockhart, and Cecilia Hunka When the iOS 14 beta was originally announced, we knew we needed to take advantage of the new widget features and get something to our merchants. The new widgets looked awesome and co...

At Shopify, we've embraced the idea of full stack data science and are often asked, "What does it mean to be a full stack data scientist?". The term has seen a recent surge in the data industry, but there doesn’t seem to be a consensus o...

Last year, we added support for 36 new languages to our products in one go, for a total of 62 [...]

One of Shopify’s philosophies when it comes to adopting a new technology isn’t only to level up the proficiency of our developers so they can implement the technology at scale, but also with the intent of sharing their new found knowledg...

The LinkedIn infrastructure has thousands of services serving millions of queries per second. At this scale, having tools that provide observability into the LinkedIn infrastructure is imperative to ensure that issues in our infrastructu...

Co-authors: Hangfei Lin, Jinghui Mo We’re excited to announce today that Feathr is joining LF AI & Data, the Linux Foundation’s umbrella foundation supporting open source innovation in artificial intelligence (AI) and data. Feathr is a f...

Tl;dr: In this piece we share critical lessons about the nature of the Celer Bridge compromise, attacker on-chain and off-chain techniques…