Yep, I feel that the main point of the story is "we had crappy code, and rewrote it and now it's great". Could have been very similar if they'd rewritten it us

Yep, I feel that the main point of the story is "we had crappy code, and rewrote it and now it's great". Could have been very similar if they'd rewritten it using C++11 features (the main difference being that you'd have to use a HTTP library instead of HTTP being in the standard library, but that doesn't make much difference)...