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First of all, congratulations on what seems to be a very well executed rewrite. That being said, it will be interesting to see how this compares to all the sto
by tdg 14y ago
First of all, congratulations on what seems to be a very well executed rewrite.
That being said, it will be interesting to see how this compares to all the stories about dangers of rewriting. I definitely want to see an update in a few months about the results.
- kristinatastic 14y agoWe launched the rewrite a few months ago, the site is working wonderfully :).
- jspiral 14y agoThe facts of this case seem to tilt things in favor of a rewrite more than other other examples I've seen. - reasonable confidence that large portions of the current codebase are truly dead - lack of tests in the existing codebase - a fair amount of real world experience showing higher productivity in rails over java web stacks - a problem domain that the decision makers can actually wrap their heads around (vs a legacy system that manages commercial mortgage repackaging or something where there is no one person who actually understands everything important that the system does) - a new development team who's going to have learning curve anyway this seems like about the perfect situation for starting over. congrats!