Starting with Ruby on Rails and then growing to an ecosystem of technologies and services, Gilt now serves over 6 million members, has a staff of over 1,000 people and has raised 100s of millions of dollars in investment.
Scaling for 6 Million Users with Rails, Scala and Nodejs – Interview with the CTO of Gilt
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How did Kickstarter make a Rails platform that could scale? Why did Gilt Groupe move to a Scala architecture? Should I be experimenting with using NodeJS in my stack and for what? Steve Robinson (PhD and programmer) interviews technology leaders about their software systems to discover the secrets of how world-class technology works in practice. Ideal for budding technology architects, lead developers and anyone who's looking to learn from detailed case-studies of success.