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I was under the impression that Amazon was primarily a collection of services written mostly in Perl. Socket, do you know?
by SiVal 12y ago
I was under the impression that Amazon was primarily a collection of services written mostly in Perl. Socket, do you know?
- kyllo 12y agoWhat I've heard from a friend who's a SDE there is that because they have a Service-Oriented Architecture the individual teams can use just about whatever language they feel is best for the particular job. The other teams don't care because they're just making service calls. I'm sure that was mostly Perl in the 90s, but today it is mostly Java, because their HR strategy is basically to hoover up all the fresh CS grads, whose strongest language is almost always Java. And also because when Amazon started building their SOA, Java/XML/SOAP was all the rage.