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jprobon Moving the NYT Games Platform to Google Cloud With Zero Downtime

Bingo.

Our CTO made our first post to Medium explaining the move: https://open.nytimes.com/introducing-the-new-open-blog-23eba...

jprobon Moving The New York Times Games Platform to Google App Engine

The game allows you to sync your game progress across multiple devices and it's subscription based so a CDN wouldn't do much help there.

Also, realtime multiplayer crosswords are coming! I'll be speaking at GothamGo this year about that exact topic.

jprobon Ask HN: What newsletters do you read every day or week?

NYT Now Morning Briefing http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/membercenter/nyt-now...

The Upshot http://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/upshot/

NYT Cooking http://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/cooking/

jprobon How the New York Times Works

We've been using Go in production on our proprietary email platform for a couple years now for daemon services, web APIs and EMR jobs[1]. A few other teams have also picked up the language and are building out new systems to support comments, mobile and I think a maybe a few other pieces of the site.

Go is definitely not our only tool in the box and many teams (including mine) still use Python, C++ or whatever works best for the job at hand, but I think there definitely is a trend of Go being the choice for a lot of new server side systems.

[1] http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/10/emr-streaming-in-go...

jprobon Underscore.go

http://golang.org/doc/code.html#Workspaces

jprobon Underscore.go

If there's a `src` folder in your repo, you're doing it wrong.