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Re:We 30x'd our Node parallelism by bjacokes on Friday December 13, 2019 @12:16PM (#21783415)
It was chosen about 6 years ago when the product was first being developed, so most of us on the engineering team weren't around when the decision was made. The main choice we're making at this point is: what's the impact and ROI of a language migration vs getting Node to work as well as we can?
Re:We 30x'd our Node parallelism by ubu7737 on Friday December 13, 2019 @12:47PM (#21783670)
> what's the impact and ROI of a language migration vs getting Node to work as well as we can?

Hire an architect costs what? Putting the genie back in the bottle was a problem Plaid baked into its early success, which is common with startups hiring engineers with zero architecture knowledge.