Box, LinkedIn and WhatsApp share open source advice

SAN JOSE — No single programming language will be a panacea for developer teams, but picking the right open-source code for specific tasks, and for scale, is paramount to any project, according to Sam Shillace, senior vice president of engineering at Box, who spoke at Facebook's @Scale developer conference last week. 

Shillace and his counterparts from LinkedIn and WhatsApp discussed the challenges they face and tough choices they must make about programming languages, but they also cautioned programmers to avoid chasing shiny, new languages if more trusted frameworks meet their needs.

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