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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Under the hood, LinkedIn consists of hundreds of services that can be evolved and scaled independently. That is, all functionality is broken down into separate codebases, deployed on separate hardware, and exposed via well-defined APIs. For example, we may have separate front-end services (e.g. Profile, Skills) that talk to separate back-end services (e.g....
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- Async,
- Scala,
- Play,
- Web Framework,
- Open Source
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I’m excited to announce the next step in LinkedIn’s service infrastructure: the Play Framework. Play is a modern web framework that combines the performance and reliability of Java and Scala, the power of reactive programming, and the productivity of full hot reload support. We’ve been running Play 2.0 in production for several months and are now gradually...
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- Developer Productivity,
- Play,
- Web Framework,
- Open Source
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A few weeks ago, I had the chance to evaluate the Play framework, a high-productivity Java web framework. At LinkedIn, we already use...
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- Java,
- Play,
- Web Framework