Re:Case Study: Npm uses Rust for its CPU-bound bottlenecks [...
by pjc50 on Sunday March 03, 2019 @04:20PM
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> writing the service in Node took them an hour
I'm really skeptical of this unless it's just a wrapper for a thing that happens to already exist. It would be interesting to have comparative LOC numbers.
> At npm, the usual experience of deploying a JavaScript service to production was that the service would need extensive monitoring for errors and excessive resource usage necessitating debugging and restarts
So, they deployed it after an hour, but it wasn't finished until they stopped having to debug it in production?
I'm really skeptical of this unless it's just a wrapper for a thing that happens to already exist. It would be interesting to have comparative LOC numbers.
> At npm, the usual experience of deploying a JavaScript service to production was that the service would need extensive monitoring for errors and excessive resource usage necessitating debugging and restarts
So, they deployed it after an hour, but it wasn't finished until they stopped having to debug it in production?