LinkedIn: A Story About Silicon Valley's Possibly Unhealthy Need for Speed - Businessweek

From a snapshot of LinkedIn's systems strategy; apparently the business of connecting humans no longer requires humans connecting

"What exactly does this mean? Well, even other very modern Web companies have far more process-laden procedures for updating the millions of code that make up their sites. Some will cleave off big chunks of code and hand them out to separate teams and then come back and try to assemble the parts into a functioning whole. Such companies as Facebook (FB) and Google also have special teams that review the lines of code written by developers. It’s these people who get to decide when a new feature is ready to make its way to their websites. Not LinkedIn. It has one, huge stash of code that everyone works on, and algorithms do the code reviewing. “Humans have largely been removed from the process,” Scott says. “Humans slow you down.”"

LinkedIn: A Story About Silicon Valley's Possibly Unhealthy Need for Speed - Businessweek