Last Friday was an InDay (A day at LinkedIn where you can take a break from your day-to-day work and build something cool) As a part of the SNA team, we have been building some really cool distributed systems, from storage, to messaging, to search. So we thought it’d be cool on this InDay to [...]
On September 29th, we unveiled LinkedIn Signal, a social search application for LinkedIn shares and tweets from LI-Twitter bounded accounts. Let’s take a look at what’s under the hood: The Scalatra-backend is a Restful service written in Scala, on the Sinatra framework. The Rest/Json RPC model is chosen for quick adhoc data manipulation for fast [...]
Faceted search has been fully rolled out late last year, we wanted to give you some insights into how it came to be, some of its challenges and what is in the future. At scale and with relevance, faceted search makes a lot of sense on the rich structured data we have here at LinkedIn. [...]
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