From Siloed to Streamlined - The Entity Platform Story

Explore LinkedIn's transformative journey from fragmented data silos to a unified entity platform in this 24-minute conference talk. Discover how LinkedIn tackled the challenge of managing interconnected member and customer data that was historically scattered across hundreds of isolated services, creating inefficiencies for application developers who had to manually stitch together data from multiple sources. Learn about the strategic approach to building a unified entity platform that revolutionizes data management and querying across LinkedIn's vast ecosystem. Understand the collaborative process involving cross-functional teams from application development, infrastructure, trust, and tooling to create streamlined experiences while abstracting underlying complexity. Gain insights into real-world adoption success stories and practical strategies for transforming siloed data architectures into cohesive, developer-friendly platforms that enhance agility and reduce the time and cost of introducing new entities into complex data ecosystems.