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Netflix runs Java heavily on the backend to scale their platform. Twitter ditched Ruby on Rails and moved to JVM (Sala) for the same reasons. Any benchmark comp
by suyash 5y ago
Netflix runs Java heavily on the backend to scale their platform. Twitter ditched Ruby on Rails and moved to JVM (Sala) for the same reasons. Any benchmark comparison for programming language performs will show Java beating Ruby on Rails, Python etc by huge margin.
- TruthWillHurt 5y agoThe main thing Java beats other langs in by a huge margin is memory consumption.
- nikolay 5y agoWhich isn't a little advantage!
- nicce 5y agoAlso, isn't Netflix actually using Python instead of Rails? https://netflixtechblog.com/python-at-netflix-bba45dae649e https://netflixtechblog.com/python-at-netflix-bba45dae649e