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LinkedIn For iPad: using local storage for snappy mobile apps

04/25/2012

Akhilesh Gupta

Software Engineer Mobile

LinkedIn since 07.11

LinkedIn just released a brand new iPad app built using HTML5, backbone.js, and underscore.js. In this post, I'll tell you how we leverage local storage to fetch lots of data while still offering a... | Read More

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Introducing LIExposeController, a brand new way to interact with iOS apps

04/23/2012

Sudeep Yegnashankaran

Mobile Software Imagineer

LinkedIn since 01.11

When LinkedIn launched its simplified iPhone app last August, one of the defining features was its new navigation system. Today, we are releasing this navigation system as an open source library, | Read More

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Voldemort Collections: Iterating over a key-value store

04/17/2012

Jason Ko

Senior Software Engineer

LinkedIn since 05.10

When using a key-value store such as Voldemort, access is usually defined as a hash table, with keys and values. What happens if you need sequential access, like iterating over a linked list?... | Read More

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Social Networking in Developing Regions

03/18/2012

Mitul Tiwari

Senior Research Engineer

LinkedIn since 02.11

We recently published a large-scale data analysis that explored how users from emerging economies are interacting with social networking. We analyzed LinkedIn's unique data set, which includes access... | Read More

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Analytics Developing RegionsBig Data

Announcing the first ever DevelopHer Hackday

03/08/2012

Prachi Gupta

Senior Software Engineer

LinkedIn since 05.10

I’m thrilled to announce that we’ll be hosting our first ever DevelopHer Hackday on June 30 - July 1, 2012 in Mountain View, CA. It will be a public competition for women engineers to get... | Read More

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Cleo: the open source technology behind LinkedIn's typeahead search

03/01/2012

Jingwei Wu

Principal Engineer

LinkedIn since 10.09

LinkedIn has open sourced Cleo under the Apache Software License 2.0. Cleo is a flexible software library for enabling rapid development of partial, out-of-order, real-time typeahead and autocomplete... | Read More

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Open Source CleoSearchTypeaheadSNA

Serving Large-scale Batch Computed Data with Project Voldemort

02/25/2012

Roshan Sumbaly

Senior Software Engineer

LinkedIn since 04.10

We've developed a multi-terabyte scale data pipeline from our offline computation layer, Hadoop, to our online serving layer, Project Voldemort.... | Read More

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Voldemort Open SourceHadoopBig Data

Introducing Inject, an open source JavaScript dependency management library for the browser

02/13/2012

Jakob Heuser

Principal Web Developer

LinkedIn since 10.08

Introducing Inject, an open source, CommonJS Compliant loader that runs in the browser and makes dependency management ridiculously easy.... | Read More