Sorry, I don't know what "Backbone" is. I see links to New Relic and Pivotal Labs, but no links to anything called "Backbone".
I guess this blog post was maybe not meant for purely technical people, but it would be nice to understand what "Backbone" is, and exactly why it would solve their problems.
It's entirely possible that you don't get the same search results on Google as I do if we're logged in because of what Google 'remembers' as our browsing habits and interests.
Which gave me the first hit of www.backbonemedia.com/
In fact, backbone.js is no where on the first page for that search.
That's amazing it comes up first for "backbone". I did actually find that link eventually, and try out the "example" todo list, but that gave me no information about how this would fix a garbage collection problem. Does anyone know how it fixed their GC problem?
It fixed their garbage collection problem by reducing the amount of server-side processing they had to do (and hence, reducing the amount of garbage that required collection). Rather than send completely rendered HTML to the browser, they're using javascript in the browser to turn the data coming from the server into the rendered page.
I guess this blog post was maybe not meant for purely technical people, but it would be nice to understand what "Backbone" is, and exactly why it would solve their problems.