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SquareCompany

Payments and commerce company (Block), maker of Square seller tools

4 things

KotlinSoftware

loved

We’re committed to Kotlin at Square. These changes should help improve the developer experience of our libraries for all of you who have also embraced the language on your platform of choice.

Square on committing to Kotlin after approving it internally in 2015

developer.squareup.com ↗·2017-05-12Wrong?

EnvoySoftware

recommended

Support for gRPC meant that we could pick up the gRPC work that had been partially rolled out, but rely on Envoy for the load balancer logic. Even more important for us, this meant that we’d be able use the exact same load balancer for RPC and HTTP traffic.

Why Square migrated its service-to-service traffic to an Envoy service mesh

developer.squareup.com ↗·2019-03-29Wrong?

GoSoftware Google

uses

At Square we’ve been running a microservices architecture for years, primarily using three different languages: Java, Ruby and Go.

Square's microservice languages

developer.squareup.com ↗·2019-03-29Wrong?

JavaSoftware

uses

At Square we’ve been running a microservices architecture for years, primarily using three different languages: Java, Ruby and Go.

Square's microservice languages

developer.squareup.com ↗·2019-03-29Wrong?

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