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Re:Swift architecture at Uber by edgyswingset on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @11:55PM (#14209063)
Netflix is a polyglot shop which uses a number of different programming languages for different parts of their systems. Yes, Node and JS play a large part in that, but that really isn't the whole story.
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Re:Swift architecture at Uber by sandGorgon on Thursday April 27, 2017 @12:07AM (#14209105)
This is part of a specific re-engineering effort to enable front end engineers write their APIs in single threaded nodejs ..And the platform takes care of scaling.

Because "they already knew js". I know that Hystrix is still core, but IMHO the shift has started.

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