How LinkedIn replaced five feed retrieval systems with one LLM model, at 1.3 billion-user scale
LinkedIn's feed reaches more than 1.3 billion members — and the architecture behind it hadn't kept pace. The system had accumulated five separate retrieval pipelines, each with its own infrastructure and optimization logic, serving different slices of what users might want to see. Engineers at the company spent the last year tearing that apart and replacing it with a single LLM-based system. The result, LinkedIn says, is a feed that understands professional context more precisely and costs less to run at scale.The redesign touched three layers of the stack: how content is retrieved, how it's ranked, and how the underlying compute is managed. Tim Jurka, vice president of engineering at LinkedIn, told VentureBeat the team ran hundreds of tests over the past year before reach [...]
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