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I hear they moved their back end to Node on Black Friday last year. If true that's damn impressive right? Unless it was a facade.
by Yhippa 10y ago
I hear they moved their back end to Node on Black Friday last year. If true that's damn impressive right? Unless it was a facade.
- throwaway324328 10y agoThe node.js front end is on its second complete rewrite in the last 2 years, and a huge source of the scaling issues. Almost all the backend is still in Java.
- harryh 10y agoAn army of below average engineers working in a language with no compile time type checking is a guaranteed recipe for writing unmaintainable code that needs to be constantly rewritten.