Background The LinkedIn home page is typically a person’s very first experience with LinkedIn. We’ve frequently used it as the primary place to introduce and promote any new products developed at LinkedIn. When we recently redesigned the LinkedIn home page from the ground up, it gave the engineering team an opportunity to rethink the technologies we currently...
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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...
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- Frontier,
- Architecture,
- Intern,
- JRuby,
- Voldemort
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We previously discussed how we visualize LinkedIn site performance so we can rapidly detect and respond to failures as they start happening. Today, Priyanka, Venkat, Veena and Hien will tell you about how we test Frontier, LinkedIn's in-house web framework, to catch problems before they reach the live site. Frontier Framework: An Introduction Frontier is a UI...