We went live with V2 of our professional networks People Profile API yesterday. V2 is an expansive update in two ways.
A lot more data
We heard your feedback, and we have upgraded our the platform Person Profile endpoint to return a whole lot more information. In this new update, these are the extra fields you will get:
- Description of
work experiences
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education history
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Starting and ending dates in education history
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Country, city, and state
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Accomplishments (!)
Patents
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Organizations
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Publications
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Honors and awards
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Courses
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Projects
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Test scores
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Volunteering work experiences
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Skils
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Certifications
The documentation is updated with the latest endpoint.
200 concurrent requests to 1000 concurrent requests
Two weeks ago, a customer crashed our server on a weekend because he sent 100 concurrent requests to speed up his crawls. I thank him for that because immediately we began focusing on scaling throughput.
I am happy to share that we rewrote some vital parts of Enrich Layer application to support a high concurrency workload.
We have tested workloads of
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crawling 200 user profiles concurrently
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crawling 5000 non-the platform pages concurrently
And they have worked beautifully. Should the need arise, we can tune the upper limit again.