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

Post by redidas » Fri, Oct 05, 2012, 3:13 PM UTC

JimmaDaRustla wrote: post #28

marknutter wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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"

Post by tedunangst » Fri, Oct 05, 2012, 6:01 PM UTC

xradionut wrote: post #32

"•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.