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Twitter Engineer Talks About the Company’s Migration from Ruby to Scala and Java

7 Jul 2011

Twitter is famous for its use of Ruby on Rails, but as it has scaled the service up it has migrated some of its code to other technologies. The company began by migrating its back-end message queue to Scala (which runs on the Java Virtual Machine), continued by rebuilding its back-end search in Java and [...]

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Tags: infoq, java server, java virtual machine, message queue, rpc servers, ruby on rails, search team, service oriented architecture, vertical integration

IT Spending Set For Global Rebound In 2010

In: web resources

13 Jan 2010

After a challenging 2009, the technology sector will see a recovery in 2010 as businesses and governments in the U.S. and around the globe begin spending again on information technology, according to a new report by Forrester Research. After declining 8.2 percent in 2009, U.S. IT spending will grow 6.6 percent in 2010 to $568 [...]

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Twitter Engineer Talks About the Company’s Migration from Ruby to Scala and Java

IT Spending Set For Global Rebound In 2010

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