home-grown server-side scripting

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Company replaces heavy compiled cycle with server-side JavaScript starting in 2005, embedding SpiderMonkey 1.6 in a custom runtime and shipping a full desktop IDE, deployment system, debugger, memory profiler and permissions/rollback flow. A thousand–two thousand engineers write JavaScript against GObject-like bindings and a homegrown UI toolkit and database optimized for extremely high read rates; services communicate via shared memory, apps handle events under 100ms, and reported productivity gains are orders of magnitude.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 15:54Speed
3. 23:44Deployment
4. 25:05Debugging
5. 27:15Memory Debugging

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