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Clearing up some things about LinkedIn mobile’s move from Rails to node.js

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Re: Clearing up some things about LinkedIn mobile’s move from Rails to node.js

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Yes, but the title on HN implied that. We need to be better about writing our submission titles, but hey, sex sells.

True! Thanks. "LinkedIn Moved from Rails to Node: 27 Servers Cut and Up to 20x Faster" should say something like "LinkedIn did a rewrite and rearchitecture that cut 27 Servers and increase speed aby 20x"

... using node.js

Re: Clearing up some things about LinkedIn mobile’s move from Rails to node.js

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"•Firefighting? That was probably a combination of several things: the fact that we were running MRI and leaked memory, or the fact that the ops team was 30% of a single guy." :o That may explain why they had spam and security issues.

He's talking about a mobile site that was using a public API. They had no more access to the password database than you or I do.
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