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https://twitter.com/necolas/status/829128165314306048

by akras14 • 9 years ago

75 15 9 years ago

nodesocket• 9 years ago

Wish they'd do a full write-up. I'd be interested in how they run their node processes.

  - Using containers, VMs, bare metal?
  - Using a process manager like Forever[1], PM2[2] or just native systemd?

[1] https://github.com/foreverjs/forever

[2] https://github.com/Unitech/pm2

romanovcode• 9 years ago

They probably will a bit later. Highly doubt that they use forever or pm2 tho.

Alan01252• 9 years ago

Out of curiosity ( because we use pm2 here, and it works well ) why would you doubt them using those solutions?

midgetjones• 9 years ago

I'm impressed, it's very snappy.

murali129• 9 years ago

why did not go for go

fenollp• 9 years ago

They seem to have done this only for Webpack (splitting JS libs + prefetching).

Why use Node at all? It's all static content...

Crazy that a top engineering post is about some company discovering "compile-time".

Next post will be about how they discovered this thing they call Testing?

helthanatos• 9 years ago

That's a bit harsh, don't you think? Maybe they'll discover bootstrap ;)

maherbeg• 9 years ago

Most likely they include a bit of Server Side Rendering using the same templates they have in their compiled asset. Actually getting to share code here would be a pretty big win.

relics443• 9 years ago

I remember seeing Twitter switching from ruby/rails to the JVM for a lot of their backend a few years ago. I wonder why they're using node now (unless the mobile traffic was never moved to the JVM)?

https://www.infoq.com/articles/twitter-java-use

alex_duf2• 9 years ago

I'm still confused.

Did they add a layer between their backend and mobile to pre-render the page server side, or did they get rid of their whole scala/jvm stack to replace it with Node?

nazka• 9 years ago

My guess is they have a front with Nodejs for mobile.twitter.com and behind that you have all their scala/jvm microservices. Recoding all their microservices would be way too expensive. I don't think they use Nodejs for their RESTful API but I am curious to see more about that. Uber uses Nodejs for their GPS API so who knows...

alex_duf2• 9 years ago

ha, that would make sense!

PunchTornado• 9 years ago

anyone knows why it was done?

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