After a year of using Node.js in production

Re:After a year of using Node.js in production by paulddraper on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @12:52AM (#11617995)

Yeah, but is that really necessary? GitHub runs Rails and they have load.

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Re:After a year of using Node.js in production by beders on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @01:48PM (#11622763)

It's all about cost.

If they would switch to more efficient languages, they could probably run on half of their current servers.

But there's the huge cost of rewriting something you already have. Will that affect your total cost significantly, if you can run on less servers.

I.e. it's too late to switch now. There needs to be a significant business reason to switch. "Stuff-that-kinda-works but needs more hardware thrown at it" is probably not a good reason.

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Re:After a year of using Node.js in production by paulddraper on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @09:35PM (#11633345)

So ... "Nice but there's more important things"

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