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Over the course of the last 5 years, LinkedIn has been built using relatively simple technologies: front end web applications (Tomcat/Servlet/JSP), back-end services (Jetty/Spring Remoting), databases, replication, and JMS. Although the web site was scaling adequately, we had some big challenges to overcome: In this session, I talked about why OSGi was chosen to help us solve those challenges, the implementation progress we've made, the pitfalls that we've encountered (so far) and what we have learned in the process.

containers!

Jonathan Feinberg expounds on design: People have very grand ideas about architecture, but without a very healthy respect for the constraints – which include network bandwidth, disk speed, processor speed, the complexity cost of communications between disparate components, the limited ability of people to understand the information presented to them and to take action in a certain amount of time – all those things together must inform the actual design and execution of software systems.