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We have a large Ruby on Rails application (25 million monthly users), our management decided to rewrite in Node.js, am I crazy?

Please tell me if: Node.js will make our site faster! Node.js will consume fewer server resources, we can save money! Node.js will make us more productive! Node.js means we can share client and ...
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easiest way for push notifications

I wanted to implement real time push notification to one of the apps written in RoR. I don't have any experience with nodejs, nowjs, express or socketio. What would be the easiest way to implement ...
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“Unbiased” recommendation on scalable architecture for real time application [closed]

I've been flipping between a few language/platform combinations trying to determine the best platform combination for a scalable system, that can handle real time application communications. The goal ...