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The CTO talks a bit about the rebuild at his talk on using Node:

http://youtu.be/HGH66JhUkis?t=8m59s

The old system was 155,000 lines of Java and similar. The team before him tried to rebuild using J2EE and XSLT and failed to get anything working in 8 months of trying. They then reorganised and rebuilt the system in about 4000 lines of Clojure:

http://youtu.be/HGH66JhUkis?t=16m3s




Sounds like us, 150k lines of Java/Escenic. Can't wait to move away from that hell hole.




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