The LinkedIn entity platform story: From siloed to streamlined

LinkedIn’s highly relational data was once fragmented across bespoke services, forcing product developers to manually stitch data together. In this session, Siddharth and Banu reveal the journey of building a unified entity platform to improve data management and querying at scale. They discuss the infrastructure powering the platform and provide a blueprint for enhancing developer agility through platform engineering. Attendees will learn:

• How LinkedIn facilitates type-safe querying without the overhead of coordinating with numerous siloed teams.
• Practical approaches to reduce time-to-market by providing managed infrastructure for new entities.
• Real-world lessons on incentivizing migration by delivering tangible benefits with minimal invasiveness for existing service owners.