Ask HN: What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are the best technologies you've worked with this year?

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Post by w3matter » Mon, Dec 21, 2009, 7:24 PM UTC

Redis -- with Ohm. Really great. Build a bunch of sites with it. A nice replacement for ActiveRecord in many use-cases. Now ready to redo some BIG sites that we have using just Redis.

It has transformed my thinking about data (i'm a postgres guy), and just made Rails more fun now. The sites I did are also blazing fast.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best technologies you've worked with this year?

#82

Post by julien » Tue, Dec 22, 2009, 8:33 AM UTC

PubSubHubbub : Bringing an end to the stupid feed polling we're tried to fight for years (see SUP from Friendfeed, AtomStreams... etc).

Re: Ask HN: What are the best technologies you've worked with this year?

#83

Post by mattdennewitz » Wed, Dec 23, 2009, 4:11 AM UTC

django, git, celeryd, mongodb, redis, tornado, appengine, superfeedr, phsb, and opencalais come to mind

Re: Ask HN: What are the best technologies you've worked with this year?

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Post by gtani » Wed, Dec 23, 2009, 11:37 AM UTC

loose summary:

- dynamic languages: ruby/rails/merb/sinatra,, python/django/twisted/tornado, groovy/grails (nobody mentioned scala very much)

- FP, erlang, clojure, F#, haskell;

- noSQL: KV store, doc-oriented db, ..

- message queues and brokers: AMQP, rabbitMQ, XMPP,

- javascript/ browser capabilities: jquery, node.js, BOSH, other libs

- hosting, deploy, VCS: VPS, EC2, git,

Re: Ask HN: What are the best technologies you've worked with this year?

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Post by bur123 » Thu, Dec 24, 2009, 11:11 AM UTC

_urga wrote: post #5

Tokyo Cabinet (key value storage: removed the "R" and "M" from "ORM", managed to get an object from disk to the client with the object being opaque to the server, cutting deserialization/serialization overhead down, implemented indexes to keep track of keys and got more of an idea of what MySQL does behind the scenes).

though it was a disappointment of the year for me. performance degrades significantly after 2M of entries :(

Re: Ask HN: What are the best technologies you've worked with this year?

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Post by jeff444 » Sat, Jan 09, 2010, 9:13 AM UTC

Java libraries aren't as simple as the Python counterparts, agreed and I too just built a sudoku solver http://sudokusolver.info seems like everyone has built one of those... I wonder why?