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Shirshanka Das and Yael Garten describe how LinkedIn redesigned its data analytics ecosystem in the face of a significant product rewrite, covering the infrastructure changes, such as client-side activity tracking, a unified reporting platform, and data virtualization techniques to simplify migration, that enable LinkedIn to roll out future product innovations with minimal downstream impact.

In critical path services such as DNS, stability is imperative above all else. Kris Beevers examines the trade-offs between risk and velocity faced by any high-growth, critical path technology business.

Twenty-five years ago, Peter Senge wrote The Fifth Discipline, the seminal guide to building a learning organization. Given their obvious benefits (and Senge's recipe for success), why don't we see more learning organizations? Janelle Klein explains how to build a roadmap for learning how to learn togetherfrom the building blocks of culture to the design of organizational architecture.

Kishau Rogers proposes a framework for launching enterprise-wide innovation centers that use open source technology in all aspects of business innovation, from rapid prototype development and open collaboration to customer discovery, while following a roadmap for commercial product development.

If you have a roadmap that no one uses, it may be an anemic roadmap. An anemic roadmap is just a list of features that goes on as far as the eye can see. This is harmful to your organization. John Heintz explains how to build truly useful roadmaps that actually help us define goals and work jointly by weaving together marketing, product, architecture, and more.

Apache Flink is a full-featured streaming framework with high throughput, millisecond latency, strong consistency, support for out-of-order streams, and support for batch as a special case of streaming. Kostas Tzoumas gives an overview of Flink and its streaming-first philosophy, as well as the project roadmap and vision: fully unifying the worlds of batch and streaming analytics.

Organizations do not need a big data strategy. They need a business strategy that incorporates big data. Most organizations lack a roadmap for using big data to uncover new business opportunities. Bill Schmarzo explains how to explore, justify, and plan big data projects with business management.