Blog posts about Performance

How the Netflix TVUI team implemented a robust strategy to quickly and easily detect performance anomalies before they a

Learn how Airbnb worked with the Chrome team to use the prioritized postTask scheduler to build a faster web experience

While site outages are inevitable, it’s our job to minimize both the duration of outages and the likelihood for an outage to occur. One of our preemptive m...

Sometimes, an engineering problem arises that might make us feel like maybe we don't know what we're doing, or at the very least, forces us out of the comf...

As companies grow, adapt, morph, and mature, one item remains the same: the need for reinvention. Technical infrastructure is no...

Co-authors: Yixing Zhang, Bingfeng Xia, Ke Wu, and Xinyu Liu Since Beam Samza runner was developed in 2018 at LinkedIn, we now have 100+ Samza Beam jobs ru...

Co-authors: Sandhya Ramu and Vasanth Rajamani For companies and organizations, failure tends to be far more illuminating than success and the lingering eff...

Espresso is LinkedIn's defacto NoSQL database solution. It is an online, distributed, fault-tolerant database that powers most of LinkedIn’s applications i...

Co-authors: Xiang Zhang, Estella Pham, and Ke Wu Identity services are critical systems that serve data on profile and member settings to help power many o...

Co-authors: Suruchi Shah and Hari Shankar The rise of instant messaging has changed how we communicate. Compared to the back-and-forth of email, we send an...

Pinot, an open source scalable distributed columnar OLAP data store, is used extensively across almost all areas of LinkedIn. It drives member-facing use c...

Monitor, profile, optimize, and ramp. This is the cycle of performance operations that we rely on to improve our Android app. Part 1...

Defined as the speed at which an app loads and responds to a member, app performance is critical to an app’s success. When an app...

One of the core aspirations of the engineering teams at LinkedIn is to delight our members with instantaneous page load experiences....

“Make LinkedIn feel instantaneous” is a mantra our performance team lives by to deliver the best possible experience to our members. We are constantly on t...

We benchmark AWS Lambda to validate our assumptions about serverless technology’s performance in the real world.