Open Sourcing TonY: Native Support of TensorFlow on Hadoop

LinkedIn heavily relies on artificial intelligence to deliver content and create economic opportunities for its 575 million members. Following recent rapid advances of deep learning technologies, our AI engineers have started adopting deep neural networks in LinkedIn's relevance-driven products, including feeds and smart-replies. Many of these use cases are built on TensorFlow, a popular deep learning framework written by Google. In the beginning, our internal TensorFlow users ran the framework on small and unmanaged "bare metal" clusters. But we quickly realized the need to connect TensorFlow to the massive compute and storage power of our Hadoop-based big data platform.