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TheIceBreak Tech Overview

Feb 15, 2011 Dwipal
TheIceBreak Tech Overview
A few people asked me what we use at TheIceBreak, so here it goes: Linux / Apache / MySQL / Python Pylons Framework (SQLAlchemy ORM, Mako Templating Engine) Lucene for Search JQuery for website Appcelerator Titanium for mobile app. Redis for caching GIT for source control, hosted on github nginx as load balancer Linode VPS for hosting webservers / database Amazon S3 for images Besides this, it …
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Aug 10, 2006 Dwipal
Someone: What do you do Me: I am an engineer Someone: So you are a developer. Me: No an engineer Someone: Isn’t that the same ? Me: No. Someone: Huh?? Me: Engineer is someone who solves real world problems using science. Developer is someone who writes code. Someone: Ahhhhh. Ok. Enjoy! D.
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