>According to Borthwick, it would have cost “hundreds of thousands per month” to keep the site running on its old platform. Even though the site was state-of-the-art just a few years ago, most of the infrastructure would be considered legacy technology by a modern startup. Because of this, the new Digg team decided to throw away virtually all of the old underpinning of the site in favor of a fresh start. Borthwick wants to rebuild the company and to do so, he says, it’s important to turn it back into startup mode and develop a completely new and modern platform to develop the new Digg on.
Anyone know the tech stack they're using? Don't see anything specific on their website (blog, about, careers).
It began with PHP - I'm not sure if it was ever rewritten. However, by "the end" they were scaling with cassandra, but mostly they were throwing more hardware and people at it. Note that this is from a hazy memory.
Anyone know the tech stack they're using? Don't see anything specific on their website (blog, about, careers).