Breaking The Monolith: Using Node.js to Rewrite Groupon's Front-End
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Breaking The Monolith: Using Node.js to Rewrite Groupon's Front-End by Sean McCullough (https://twitter.com/mcculloughsean)
Groupon's monolithic Ruby on Rails application had some major usability and scalability issues. We will discuss how we planned on breaking the monolith apart, how we chose Node.js to replace Ruby for servicing our web traffic, and how we made a major rewrite as painless as possible