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A comment on How We Built the Next Gen Travel Agency using Amazon, Clojure, and a Small Team.

Re:How We Built the Next Gen Travel Agency using Amazon, Clo... by ecolak on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @01:10PM (#3977521)
It's great that you seem to have settled on Clojure after 2 complete rewrites which apparently you have the time and money for but that also sounds like you might end up rewriting the whole thing once you don't like something about Clojure. I hope you really did your due diligence this time.
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Re:How We Built the Next Gen Travel Agency using Amazon, Clo... by lkrubner on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @05:33PM (#3978987)
But they should rebuild every 3 or 4 years, if they find a better technology, yes? That was one of his points that he lists at the bottom:

"Rewrite mercilessly (Our core search system is now on its 5th generation.)"

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