The success of an online service with millions of users worldwide, and an interactive audience of several thousand, depends on a well architected and engineered software platform. Our engineering team has recently updated the software stack we use to build and deploy back-end (JVM-based) services for such an online service. In this post I share the choices we made, as well as some of the background (motivation behind the project, benefits we were looking to gain). This might help if you’re undertaking a similar strategic review and update of the software stack and deployment approach for your back-end services in the near future.

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