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LinkedIn uses a service-oriented architecture; the site consists of hundreds of individual services - that is, separate codebases, deployed on separate hardware, built on a handful of different technology stacks. This lets us iterate and scale each service separately depending on its requirements.

We've moved some services to Play already and are now gradually rolling it out for others.

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I would absolutely love to read a blog post going in depth about how your SOA works.

I would, too.

I did enjoy reading this article, though. I'm a novice with Rails, and I have been learning Java for a Coursera course (Algorithms), and the handful of things the article went over seemed straightforward. It would be interesting from my perspective to see different frameworks interacting through a RESTful interface.

me too.

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