Product-Design

Co-Authors: Jacob Mannix and Shaobo Zhang Think of how many times a day you use some type of search functionality across your devices and applications to discover information, find a contact, or a new job opportunity. The truth is we all depend on the ability to search for things online, and finding the right match to the information, organization, or to a job that maps to your skills and interests makes all the difference in our experiences and the knowledge we can gain. The magic in search happens because of the technology that powers it. And one of the key technologies behind […]

Co-authors: Michele Ursino and Joe Xue Introduction At LinkedIn, we believe that an opportunity can arise from just one conversation, so having reliable and powerful messaging capabilities to enable people to have those meaningful and professional conversations is crucial. Over the years, we have evolved our messaging platform to meet the needs of our 900 million members and customers. From our legacy asynchronous email-based system to our current system, which features threaded conversations delivered in real-time, LinkedIn’s messaging platform serves as the backbone to all of its […]