"..given the amount of front-end stack required, hired employees, and 3 6-core (6?) 40 GB front-end webservers"
Could you have misread the article?
We have one developer/sysadmin (myself, and I'm pretty much half-time on the development work and no-time on the sysadmin work) and the 6 processors/40 GB RAM is the total amount of app server resources across all machines.
I am a big fan of the JVM and I don't want to get into an argument about language productivity, but since I believe that I have saved a lot of time (and therefore, money) with Ruby, I don't really see the ~$5,000 spent on app servers over 2 years as an issue.
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"..given the amount of front-end stack required, hired employees, and 3 6-core (6?) 40 GB front-end webservers"
Could you have misread the article?
We have one developer/sysadmin (myself, and I'm pretty much half-time on the development work and no-time on the sysadmin work) and the 6 processors/40 GB RAM is the total amount of app server resources across all machines.
I am a big fan of the JVM and I don't want to get into an argument about language productivity, but since I believe that I have saved a lot of time (and therefore, money) with Ruby, I don't really see the ~$5,000 spent on app servers over 2 years as an issue.