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Engineering writing from the company that created Apache Kafka, covering data infrastructure, feed and search systems, and recently LLM based retrieval and ranking for features such as follow recommendations. Culture posts are mixed in, but the infrastructure and ranking write ups show how a professional network with more than a billion members is served.
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Engineering writing from the company that created Apache Kafka, covering data infrastructure, feed and search systems, and recently LLM based retrieval and ranking for features such as follow recommendations. Culture posts are mixed in, but the infrastructure and ranking write ups show how a professional network with more than a billion members is served.
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