Technology stack choices? at 2013-02-16 10:25:53 -0500
Truong Hoang Dung (revskill) wrote: Memcache kicks Redis's *ss !
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Alex (antiface) wrote: Wouldn't it depend on what your goal was? Memcache does seem to kick Redis' *ss for certain things, but then there are things you can do with Redis that you can't do with...
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Technology stack choices? at 2013-02-16 17:54:11 -0500
Sam Saffron (sam) wrote: Really, can you do this with memcached? github.com https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/vendor/gems/message_bus/lib/message_bus/reliable_pub_sub.rb#L93-L126...
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Eric Florenzano (ericflo) wrote: FWIW I was one of the co-founders of Convore, and the performance issues towards the end were almost certainly because of an unindexed table that grew absolutely out...
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Erik Heemskerk (korben) wrote: You might want to clarify what in the world that does, for the non-Ruby-proficient amongst us. I'm one of them.
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Technology stack choices? at 2013-04-16 13:48:18 -0400
Robbie Straw (drbawb) wrote: ChrisB said: The PHP community dwarfs the Ruby community, as a result of which the availability of web hosts offering PHP/MySql at 'small business prices' dwarfs those...
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Paolo G. Giarrusso (Blaisorblade) wrote: Most of your question is answered eloquently by codinghorror's blog:...
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Igor Polyakov wrote: Twitter switched to mostly Scala, actually. Still a JVM language, but much more powerful (read: less verbose) than Java Read full topic
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Sam Saffron 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 improved...
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Robin Ward 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 Read full topic
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jcolebrand wrote: It sounds like you're more against non-statically-typed languages than anything. Read full topic
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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. Also,...
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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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Andrew Stevens 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, and Sam...
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Chris Bridgett wrote: If this were SO, I'd probably mark this as correct. Read full topic
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Adam Davis wrote: BRam said: I wonder if they even considered nosql choices like mongo or couch. [IMG]http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll164/stienman/2013-02-07-0453-cassandra_zps92e7709a.png[/IMG]...
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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... Read...
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Jon Samwell 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 people being able...
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David Briggs wrote: Why did you choose to use PBKDF2 for password hashing? I thought bcrypt was generally more secure. Read full topic
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James R Grinter 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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