Re:Eating our own dog food (for lunch)
by lmm on Monday September 30, 2013 @08:23AM
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My old^3 workplace has had an equivalent for years, but running via IRC/SMS (it's been around since before phones were good at complex webpages) - a small, tight Java codebase. Sometimes I despair at how many extra layers of cruft seem to be spent making everything webby (memcache for an app this simple? really?), when the end result is the same level of functionality.
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Re:Eating our own dog food (for lunch)
by MrBuddyCasino on Monday September 30, 2013 @08:38AM
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I also raised an eyebrow at the mention of memcache - but hey, if the outcome is that the intern learns a thing or two, why not.
Re:Eating our own dog food (for lunch)
by thomaspurchas on Monday September 30, 2013 @09:00PM
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The memcache was purely the result of polling the server every second to keep different JS clients in sync. Admittedly it's not very elegant, but it was something I did just to see how easy it is (backbone makes this really really easy).
Unfortunately you pay for every datastore query, and when 50 odd people have the order page up, each polling every second, thing get a little silly. Additionally with appengine memcache is just one import away.