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"To change one color throughout the entire Groupon.com webpage, that was estimated to take three months to do". ... It seems that they rewrite from scratch a t
by tangue 13y ago
"To change one color throughout the entire Groupon.com webpage, that was estimated to take three months to do".
... It seems that they rewrite from scratch a terrible mess, the switch to Node is anecdotical
- tmikaeld 13y agoThe first Node.js dismissal, as expected.
- mcmillion 13y agoThat's not a dismissal of Node, it's a dismissal of Rails as the reason for their problems.
- camus2 13y agoLike it or not , NodeJs is here to stay. The problem is devs using it for every use cases,even when it doesnt make sense, just like rails. Of course,in a few years you'll read articles about how bad node is, just because developpers did not choose the right tool for the job.
- tangue 13y agoThe only thing I'm dismissing here is Groupon's codebase. (BTW I'm impressed by Meteor and Derby)
- mcmillion 13y agoAgreed. Incoming Rails vs. Node flame war aside, if it takes you 3 months to make trivial changes, you're doing something very wrong, or your development process is completely broken.
- schneid 13y agoOn the plus side, making trivial changes now only takes a week! "It took three months just to change the color appearing across the website, he said. “After we moved to Node.js, it took us literally a week.”" - http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2013/12/04/paypal-groupon-go-node-js/ http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2013/12/04/paypa...
- mcmillion 13y agoI don't even have words to say to that. Just wow.