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by hello_moto 903 days ago
shrug the companies you mentioned do not use C++ for web-app.

Amazon is a huge Java shop.

Twitter used to be huge Rails app with Java/Scala services.

NGINX and Passenger are infrastructure pieces just like Memcached so I think you need to understand the context here...
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jupp0r 901 days ago
Shrug, you have no idea what you are talking about [1]. Also nginx and passenger are webservers and claiming they are not part of your web app is a pretty wild claim when they literally send http responses to browsers (unlike memcached).

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_languages_used_i...

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hello_moto 897 days ago
I think you're the one who got confused with the context here.

We're talking about web-app, not microservices.

We're talking about CRUD with DB migration, sessions, caching, etc.

I recalled Google's dl.google.com was implemented in C++ and Brad F rewrote it with Golang. We're not talking about microservice that serves file here. We're talking about the main web application that serves wikipedia, youtube original version (they might had revamped it sometime post acquisition with web gateway and bajillion microservices), Google Search (was Java servlet), Facebook original web-app (was PHP, became HVVM/H4CK.

So yes, I _know_ what I'm talking about in terms of the context of a web-application here. Do you?

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