There's no better way to onboard onto a...

There's no better way to onboard onto a team than to join during a bit of a crisis, right? " "" "While not necessarily the recommended or preferred approach, an incident does enable quick learning. Within the first month of my time on the Search team, we had to open up an incident room due to sitespeed regressions across several pages. While I'm still relatively new to the stack, I volunteered to lead it as I knew it would give me an immediate glimpse into many different parts of the Search ecosystem at LinkedIn. " "" "Wow, was I right! While we're still wrapping up a few loose ends as we close the incident out, it's been a whirlwind couple of weeks as we've quickly addressed many latency-related issues throughout our serving stack and now have a plan for many more improvements and mechanisms to protect us against such a crisis from occurring again. " "" "Not only did I learn a lot about our technology, but I also learned a lot about the team I recently joined. It was awesome to see everyone pull together, quickly work through a multitude of potential causes, and design experiments to validate potential remedies. " "" "I am excited to be about to close out the incident, but I am even more excited than I was when I first joined Search after this incident: it is clear that Search has a super strong team of engineers, and with generative AI (and perhaps, more importantly, embeddings based retrieval) coming more and more into the Search picture, we are well positioned to innovate upon LinkedIn Search and make it even better for our 1 billion+ global members 💪

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