LinuxCon + CloudOpen + ContainerCon NA 2015

Any company looks very fondly at the potential of explosive growth. It is identified with success. After all, growth means that your members appreciate your offering and exponential growth can be construed to simply mean that these members appreciate it very much. How a company survives when it hits that geyser is an interesting story. Indeed no services are infinitely scalable from their inception, neither does any company have infinite manpower. We’ll take a look at various lessons learned through our experience at LinkedIn. The talk will present some of our experiences from scaling backend infrastructures, developing machine learned models for various relevance problems and the consequences of having a rapidly growing organization. At the core, a picture of Data Integrity and Experimentations will develop as key success fact