How Pinweel Uses Linux to Power Group Photo Sharing

“We made the decision really early on to use a lot of open
source technologies, Linux, of course, being front and center. We
chose to standardize our servers with Ubuntu; all our servers now
run on Ubuntu. We’ve started with very bare installations of Ubuntu
and only added the packages each server needed to perform its
function(s).

Our Web application and APIs are built using Ruby, Rails,
Twitter Bootstrap, and jQuery, are served with Passenger and
Apache, and make heavy use of REST. We store our data in MongoDB
and utilize Memcached for our caching layers.

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