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LinkedIn Application Architecture – Software Distribution View

The article lists down the softwares used at different layers in the LinkedIn platform layered architecture.

Presentation Layer

Dust.js (Client-side templating JS engine)
Backbone.js (Client-side MVC JS framework)
JQuery
YUI Library (UI libraries started by Yahoo engineers)
Google V8 Engine (Used as server side JS templating engine)
Node.js (Used in mobile app)
HTML5 (Used in mobile app)

Business Layer

Java (Applications such as Profile)
Grails (Applications such as a Recruiter app)
JRuby (Applications such as a Skills app)
Spring (Component Model)
Scala

Middleware

Apache Kafka (Distributed entreprise-level messaging system)

Data Layer

Oracle (RDBMS as primary data store used for writes)
Espresso (NoSQL data store emerging as primary data store and envisioned to replace Oracle)
Voldemart (NoSQL data store serving many Read-only pages)
Zoie (Lucene)
Bobo (Lucene)
MySQL
Databus (Change data capture system)
Hadoop (Map-Reduce)

Cross-cutting concerns

Apache Helix (Clustering management)

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Ajitesh Kumar

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I have been recently working in the area of Data analytics including Data Science and Machine Learning / Deep Learning. I am also passionate about different technologies including programming languages such as Java/JEE, Javascript, Python, R, Julia, etc, and technologies such as Blockchain, mobile computing, cloud-native technologies, application security, cloud computing platforms, big data, etc. I would love to connect with you on Linkedin. Check out my latest book titled as First Principles Thinking: Building winning products using first principles thinking.

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Ravi Kumar Srirangam says:

April 10, 2014 at 3:04 pm

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Data-Infrastructure-LinkedIn is a presentation by Sid Anand (perhaps, qualifies for your Hall of Fame) and is quite informative.

http://www.infoq.com/interviews/12-mar-sid-anand/ is an interview with the same person and he highlights some good reasons for Linkedin to move away from RDBMS and more importantly the migration path