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Ask HN: What language was Scribd built in?
Was Scribd built in straight PHP, Django, Rails or something else?
- Readmore 17y agoRails
- teej 17y agohttp://www.scribd.com/images/rails.png http://www.scribd.com/images/rails.png
- earl 17y agoWe're a Rails shop, with some C extensions for Rails and a handful of internal java webservices running on top of Tomcat. There's probably a bit of lisp/clojure somewhere or other, but that's about it. Search has variously been powered by lucene and/or sphinx. The ipaper viewer was built with the Adobe flash authoring tools.