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BEHIND THE PLATFORM: THE JOURNEY TO CREATE THE LINKEDIN GENAI APPLICATION TECH STACK

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Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

LinkedIn's journey of building a GenAI application tech stack began in early 2023. It initially used a Java-based midtier but transitioned to a Python-based framework using LangChain for both offline development and online serving. Prompt management evolved from simple string interpolation to a standardized system using Jinja templates and a prompt source of truth.