LinkedIn Mobile Moved from Rails to Node: 27 Servers Cut and Up to 20x Faster

Re:LinkedIn Mobile Moved from Rails to Node: 27 Servers Cut ... by nicholassmith on Thursday October 04, 2012 @04:34PM (#4614238)

This times a thousand. When you first write the software you're basing it on expectations, no matter how well you plan, but when you rewrite it you're coming at it with real world knowledge of the pain points so of course it's going to be better in terms of performance.

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Re:LinkedIn Mobile Moved from Rails to Node: 27 Servers Cut ... by omaranto on Thursday October 04, 2012 @05:10PM (#4614414)

"This times a thousand" would be an improvement by a factor of 10000. The improvement should definitely not be that large.

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Re:LinkedIn Mobile Moved from Rails to Node: 27 Servers Cut ... by omaranto on Thursday October 04, 2012 @07:24PM (#4614946)

Thanks for the explanation, skeletonjelly. I think the reason I misunderstood is that I don't hang out on the Internet enough: a friend explained to me that "This." and "this times a thousand" are Internet slang that mean "I agree" (the second, presumably means something like "On a scale from 1 to infinity my agreement level is 1000." :). As far I know these expressions aren't used verbally, which would explain why I took it literally.

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Re:LinkedIn Mobile Moved from Rails to Node: 27 Servers Cut ... by xenophanes on Thursday October 04, 2012 @09:54PM (#4615335)

It means repeat it a thousand times for emphasis.

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Re:LinkedIn Mobile Moved from Rails to Node: 27 Servers Cut ... by skeletonjelly on Thursday October 04, 2012 @07:16PM (#4614915)

You're getting downvoted because the poster was referring to the gravity/importance of the message.

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Re:LinkedIn Mobile Moved from Rails to Node: 27 Servers Cut ... by freditup on Friday October 05, 2012 @12:36AM (#4615684)

We don't all have English as our first language, and there's no problem with that. I'd have replied exactly as you did if I thought he literally meant "this times a thousand"

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Re:LinkedIn Mobile Moved from Rails to Node: 27 Servers Cut ... by nicholassmith on Friday October 05, 2012 @04:46AM (#4616111)

I included an extra bit of improvement to deal with inflation rates.

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Re:LinkedIn Mobile Moved from Rails to Node: 27 Servers Cut ... by dguaraglia on Friday October 05, 2012 @12:09AM (#4615647)

LOL, apparently sarcasm and witty banter is not HN forte :P

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