When the bright folks at Zeebox, a killer social TV site, decided to build their website, they naturally turned to cloud services because they are a startup and had to use their money wisely. They also turned to the Scala language and open source community because they had very specific scalability and performance needs, like processing 60+ TV channels — knowing it will grow to thousands in the future — in real time, and juggling the social streams of users from sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
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Enterprise Web Apps: The Next Generation
Posted by: Martin Odersky February 8, 2012 05:00 AMWhen the bright folks at Zeebox, a killer social TV site, decided to build their website, they naturally turned to cloud services because they are a startup and had to use their money wisely. They also turned to the Scala language and open source community because they had very specific scalability and performance needs, like processing 60+ TV channels — knowing it will grow to thousands in the future — in real time, and juggling the social streams of users from sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.