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Poll: For your startup, do you use Django, Rails, PHP or Other?

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Re: Poll: For your startup, do you use Django, Rails, PHP or Other?

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We use R and Shiny server pro for our back-end. It's hosted on AWS EB with our static site on S3. We love it - the data scientists can write and push features directly, and everything (including our API's) are easily maintainable in R. I've been shouting the praise of R and it's usefulness as a production ready language for a long time.

Contact me with questions about data science, start ups, or R - if you have a data backed start up, R + Shiny is the way to go.

Re: Poll: For your startup, do you use Django, Rails, PHP or Other?

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We have Ruby, Python, Go, C, Node, Perl, Backbone and maybe a few others I'm not remembering right now. When you're building distributed systems, you pick the right tool for the job. Edit: And Assembly: http://youtu.be/zrSvoQz1GOs?t=15m44s I'd actually recommend the entire talk.

Are you guys building a business or just trying to have fun?

We're doing all right: www.fastly.com/customers

Re: Poll: For your startup, do you use Django, Rails, PHP or Other?

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We have Ruby, Python, Go, C, Node, Perl, Backbone and maybe a few others I'm not remembering right now. When you're building distributed systems, you pick the right tool for the job. Edit: And Assembly: http://youtu.be/zrSvoQz1GOs?t=15m44s I'd actually recommend the entire talk.

Still, why so many different? Must be really messy.

It definitely can be, since it's an infrastructural distributed system, but it's all unix when you break it down.
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