Re:A Short Rant At Wired - The Second Coming Of Java
by bhauer on Friday September 27, 2013 @06:41PM
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> The really interesting discussion of course would be one that included engineers from Twitter and their recall about what happened.
Agreed. But as your article pointed out, Wired apparently didn't want to get into having to do some research. :)
Also, I did not mean to say that you should not move to something that inherently runs faster, that would be perverse. However if I have a system written in a language that already works I would probably start by looking at algorithms and architecture before pulling the New Language card.
Once you have a set of interoperating services then re-evaluate which, if any, individual services are my performance bottlenecks that could benefit from the effort of re-implementation in a new language.
The really interesting discussion of course would be one that included engineers from Twitter and their recall about what happened.
I have been in enough design meetings to know that their strategy didn't emerge fully formed from the mouth of one person.