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> GDS chooses what works over what's trendy for everything critical: everything critical works without AJAX and CSS too. Absolutely. The vast majority of the s
by vertex-four 12y ago
> GDS chooses what works over what's trendy for everything critical: everything critical works without AJAX and CSS too.
Absolutely. The vast majority of the site is a Ruby on Rails content management system, as the reader will find out if they visit the github. There's a few shiny bits that are Go and MongoDB and whatever else (primarily things like load balancers and API endpoints and dynamic metadata services), but most of it is a stack which is, frankly, mostly stable and "enterprise" by now.
Their primary alternative to the system they've built would've been a huge, proprietary content management system - Microsoft SharePoint with a lot of customisation comes to mind, and likely would've cost them more, as well as reducing the pool of developers with experience.