I guess this blog post was maybe not meant for purely technical people, but it would be nice to understand what "Backbone" is, and exactly why it would solve their problems.
Perhaps more importantly, here are some examples of what sites are doing with it: http://backbonejs.org/#examples
It's entirely possible that you don't get the same search results on Google as I do if we're logged in because of what Google 'remembers' as our browsing habits and interests.
The first link is to a javascript library widely known in the web development community.
Which gave me the first hit of www.backbonemedia.com/
In fact, backbone.js is no where on the first page for that search.
That's amazing it comes up first for "backbone". I did actually find that link eventually, and try out the "example" todo list, but that gave me no information about how this would fix a garbage collection problem. Does anyone know how it fixed their GC problem?
1. Dispora is slow, why?
2. Requests take a long time on the server, why?
3. Most of the time is spent in ruby doing processing.
4. Why is ruby slow?
5. Ruby is slow because of the garbage collector.
6. How can we get around this ruby being slow problem?
7. Reduce calls to server side by writing replacing server side calls with javascript rendering of templates and whatnot.