Case Study: LinkedIn scales developer productivity and rapid releases with Gradle

LinkedIn scales to 100,000 Gradle builds per day with Gradle

LinkedIn, a major professional networking platform, faced the challenge of scaling developer productivity to support its 3,000 engineers and enable them to build over 100,000 times per day. Their goal was to create a culture and infrastructure that allowed for extremely frequent, reliable, and consistent production deployments, moving away from a monolithic architecture that hindered their development speed.

By leveraging Gradle, LinkedIn implemented a robust multi-codebase environment supported by advanced automation tools. This solution provided a standardized developer workflow and a comprehensive dependency graph, enabling automated builds and tests for downstream projects during pull requests. The results were significant, allowing their most prominent application, LinkedIn.com, to ship to production three times a day and manage a portfolio of 10,000 codebases, giving them a key competitive advantage through rapid iteration.

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