Posts by Kevin Crane

In his first post, Kevin told you about a day in the life of a LinkedIn intern. In this post, he'll give you a glimpse at the end-to-end architecture of a LinkedIn app. This includes a JRuby/Sinatra front-end, Frontier back-end, and data storage in Voldemort. LinkedIn uses a variety of technologies to process requests. Today, I'll describe one path through the...

I’m Kevin Crane, and I’m going into my senior year at USC as a computer science major, where I play water polo, jam on the guitar, and rock climb. More importantly, I’m working at LinkedIn for the summer as a software engineering intern. I got placed into the CNC (Content and Community) team here and have been hard at work learning the ropes. The experience of...