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Top Websites and Java. Which Tech Giants Rely on Java the Most?

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As trends in software development come and go with lightning speed, one way to make sure your professional skills are relevant on the market, when it comes to specific programming languages and tools, is to learn which technologies big tech companies are using. Being proficient in a technology stack utilized by at least some of the top tech giants pretty much guarantees that your skills will be in-demand by employers for years to come. Top Websites and Java. Which Tech Giants Rely on Java the Most?  - 1

Which programming languages top tech companies are using?

Now, it's not a secret that Java is one of the leading programming languages in terms of enterprise use and probably the most important enterprise backend language in the world. Based on a study done by Coding Dojo, analyzing the most popular programming languages used by the top 25 unicorn companies, Java, Python, JavaScript, C/C++, and Ruby are the five most popular programming languages amongst enterprises. Of course, Java is used alongside other programming languages, but today it is truly difficult to find a major technology company that is not relying on Java to power at least some of its processes. Here is a list of top tech companies and the main programming languages they are using.

  • Google

Front-end: JavaScript, TypeScript. Back-end: Java, C, C++, Python, Go. Database: Bigtable, MariaDB.

  • Apple

Front-end: JavaScript, PHP. Back-end: Java, Python, Perl, Ruby.

  • Amazon

Front-end: JavaScript. Back-end: Java, C++, Perl.

  • Facebook

Front-end: JavaScript. Back-end: Java, Python, Haskell, PHP, Hack, XHP, Erlang, C++.

  • YouTube

Front-end: JavaScript. Back-end: Java, C, C++, Python, Go.

  • Twitter

Front-end: JavaScript. Back-end: Java, C++, Scala, Ruby.

  • eBay

Front-end: JavaScript. Back-end: Java, Scala.

Programming languages used by non-tech top companies

When it comes to other industries and non-tech companies, the top ones also typically use Java. Here are several examples of top companies and the programming languages they rely on to build their websites, services and applications.

1. Retail.

  • Walmart

    Java, Python, JavaScript, Perl.

  • Costco

    Java, Python, JavaScript, C.

  • Home Depot

    Java, Python, JavaScript, C#, Ruby.

2. Healthcare.

  • CVS Health

    Java, JavaScript, Swift.

  • UnitedHealth Group

    Java, JavaScript, Python.

  • McKesson

    Java, JavaScript.

  • CardinalHealth

    Java, JavaScript, Python.

3. Finance.

  • JP Morgan

    Java, Python, JavaScript, Perl, Ruby.

  • Citigroup

    Java, Python, C++, C#

  • Wells Fargo

    Java, Python, JavaScript, C#.

4. Telecommunications.

  • AT&T

    Java, Python, JavaScript, Perl.

  • Verizon

    Java, Python, JavaScript, Swift.

  • Comcast

    Java, Python, JavaScript, Go, Ruby.

5. Aerospace and defence.

  • Boeing

    Java, Python, JavaScript, Perl, Ruby.

  • Raytheon

    Java, C++, C#.

Top companies and JavaEE

Java EE (Java Platform, Enterprise Edition) is one of the most important tools you would need to know and have experience with in order to be in-demand as an enterprise-oriented Java developer. Java EE is Oracle's enterprise Java computing platform. It provides an API and runtime environment for developing and running enterprise software, including network and web services, and other large-scale, multi-tiered, scalable, reliable, and secure network applications. Java EE extends the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE), providing an API for object-relational mapping, distributed and multi-tier architectures, and web services. According to this data by Enlyft, currently, there are 101,837 companies using J2EE. Businesses using J2EE are most often found in the United States and across industries with software development being the most popular one. J2EE is most frequently used by companies with 10-50 employees and US$1-10 mln in revenue.

How specific companies are using Java?

When it comes to the details of how specific technology companies are using Java in their websites and services, there is understandably not so much info openly available as businesses aren’t always looking to give this kind of information to the public. Here are several examples of big websites with well-documented reliance on Java code.

  • How is Facebook using Java?

Historically, Facebook was written in PHP by Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskowitz. Now it also heavily relies on JavaScript for the frontend. Facebook’s mobile applications are written in Java. This language is also used to power a number of backend processes along with C and C++. The social network also uses MySQL as a key-value persistent storage, moving joins and logic onto the web servers. JavaEE platform is used to create third-party Facebook applications that integrate with Facebook’s services via APIs.

  • How is YouTube using Java?

Even though originally YouTube was built in PHP with the help of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, today the world’s most popular video hosting platform has to rely on Java as a way to handle huge amounts of daily traffic efficiently. Java plays a particularly important role in YouTube’s mobile and web applications, as well as YouTube API building.

  • How is Twitter using Java?

Twitter, on the other hand, is one of the most illustrative examples of a tech company switching to Java along the way and winning from such a decision significantly. Originally written in Ruby on Rails, in its first years of rising popularity Twitter had major and frequient performance problems. Twitter’s website down page has even become famous and gave birth to the Fail Whale meme. That was until the company moved most of its stack to JVM, finishing this process by around 2013. Most of Twitter’s backend code was re-written in Scala.

  • How is LinkedIn using Java?

The professional social network Linkedin is an example of a big website betting heavily on Java from the start. According to the website’s developers, LinkedIn is written in 99% Java, with C++, Ruby on Rails and Groovy/Grails as additional programming languages they are using for minor purposes. Utilising JVM allows LinkedIn to be able to demonstrate a very reliable performance all the time even when the usage traffic is peaking.

  • How is Google using Java?

As a company that is very concerned about its products being highly scalable, reliable and able to maintain low latency and high durability, Google also has very strong reliance on Java for the large chunk of its backend processes through the Internet giant’s countless services and applications. It is well-known that Eric Schmidt, Google’s CEO from 2001 to 2011, was working in Sun Microsystems early in his career where he supervised the Oak Project which later was released as Java. Eric Schmidt promoted the idea of building Android entirely in Java.
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Andrei Level 41
21 July 2021
Great article, thanks! ✌