Technology stack choices? at 2013-02-10 02:32:12 -0500
Ted Lilley (binaryphile) wrote: Great idea...write one then.
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Technology stack choices? at 2013-02-10 11:23:33 -0500
Sasindu Mendis (websavvydude) wrote: I already thought about it but quite stuffed with other works right now, maybe couple of months later..
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Igor Polyakov (iopq) wrote: Twitter switched to mostly Scala, actually. Still a JVM language, but much more powerful (read: less verbose) than Java
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Sam Saffron (sam) wrote: I feel a big reason twitter are on scala is that jruby was not nearly as advanced a few years back. Twitter had huge issues with the Ruby GC, something that has somewhat...
View ArticleTechnology stack choices? at 2013-02-10 23:04:05 -0500
Robin Ward (eviltrout) wrote: For those interested in why we chose EmberJS, I wrote up a blog post about it: eviltrout.com Why Discourse uses Ember.js - Evil Trout's Blog
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jcolebrand wrote: It sounds like you're more against non-statically-typed languages than anything.
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Randall (randall) wrote: You are actually not correct about PHP being cgi based. It is possible to run it as a cgi script, but it is usually tied deeper into the web server through a plugin interface....
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jcolebrand wrote: via cgi-style interfaces. They changed it, I believe in Apache2, so that it's no longer CGI specific, however the style is that you hook into the Apache runtime. The same is said...
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Technology stack choices? at 2013-02-11 18:04:50 -0500
Andrew Stevens (andxyz) wrote: ChrisB said: What was the reasoning behind the team's choice to roll with emberjs/Ruby/Postgres? If you look at the core group of programmers, Jeff Atwood, Robin Ward,...
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Chris Bridgett (ChrisB) wrote: If this were SO, I'd probably mark this as correct. :D
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Technology stack choices? at 2013-02-12 10:52:02 -0500
Adam Davis (stienman) wrote: BRam said: I wonder if they even considered nosql choices like mongo or couch.
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jcolebrand wrote: ahem some NoSQL databases have immediate consistency. We just like the eventual consistency for things like 3TB datasets being copied between four datacenters, or torrents...
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Jon Samwell (jonsamwell) wrote: The whole point is that anyone can use the software and that's cool. If it was written in .Net and used MSSQL that would immediately stop a very large majority of...
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David Briggs (sankage) wrote: Why did you choose to use PBKDF2 for password hashing? I thought bcrypt was generally more secure.
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Technology stack choices? at 2013-02-13 05:13:30 -0500
James R Grinter (jrg) wrote: iopq said: Twitter switched to mostly Scala also - and this is an important point about performance - Twitter are running a single-instance system (although by now they'll...
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Technology stack choices? at 2013-02-13 05:18:32 -0500
James R Grinter (jrg) wrote: jcolebrand said: There are at minimum two sets of processes running, there's the PHP process, and there's the Apache process not with the typical Apache 2 module...
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jcolebrand wrote: it is my understanding, and I could be absolutely incorrect, that that is the "old" way of doing things, and that the "current" way involves fastcgi and php-fpm. Which isn't so...
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Willie Roberts (Diago) wrote: Your correct with regards to running PHP on NGINX which requires PHP-FPM. Not sure about the Apache side of things but just finished configuring some servers to run...
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Technology stack choices? at 2013-02-14 16:36:28 -0500
James R Grinter (jrg) wrote: I believe fastCGI is preferred with Apache and PHP when you want to run each user's PHP scripts as their own (Unix) user, i.e. for the hosted-website market. (If I were...
View ArticleTechnology stack choices? at 2013-02-15 22:37:32 -0500
finid wrote: Given that PHP is that bad, but is everywhere, don't you think that developers should now be actively looking to make Python and Ruby applications to be just as easy to deploy as those...
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