At LinkedIn, we've been using the Play Framework in production for over a year. At the 2014 Ping Conference, I gave a talk about some of the techniques we've been experimenting with to deal with complexity and performance: Composition: the Play Framework is built around a functional programming paradigm, which makes it much easier to use composition to build...
Posts by Yevgeniy Brikman
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- Topics:
- Performance,
- Streaming,
- Developer Productivity,
- Play,
- Tech Talk
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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....
- Topics:
- 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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Attention all interns in the Bay Area! You’re invited to the second annual Intern Hackday to be held at LinkedIn HQ on August 3rd,...
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At LinkedIn, we have Hackdays once per month, where we encourage employees to form teams, work on anything they can dream of, present...
- Topics:
- Hackday,
- Veterans,
- LinkedIn Labs
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Last Friday, we kicked off the first ever Veterans Hackday. We gave hackers around the country a simple mission: build awesome...
- Topics:
- LinkedIn For Good,
- Hackday,
- Veterans,
- Event