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Hyves operates according to a SCRUM Agile development process. The focus is on great and working code and applications, so UML and deliberation are means to an end. Deploy cycles are short and the progress is fast: Ideas you have today, can be online in weeks. The software you write will be used by millions of people every month.
Technology overview
Hyves runs a substantial operation in terms of volume, with over 6,1 million monthly visitors on the web, and 1,6 million on mobile, 7,5 million chat messages every day and ±3500 servers. The main technology stack is PHP, Python, NGINX, MySQL and Memcached running on Gentoo. High-volume key-value stores such as Redis take care of persistency, Node.js is used for real-time updates; Hadoop is used for massive parallel processing. The services we provide include toolbars (FF/IE), desktop clients (Qt C++), several mobile clients (iPhone/Android/Blackberry) and the OpenSocial API.