Hey there.

We’ve spent a lot of time and effort optimizing and refining Revver 1.0 in the weeks leading up to to launch. If you read this blog, you probably know that. You might not know the technical details, however - and the details are pretty exciting (to us):

The Ruby language and the Ruby on Rails framework has had quite a bit of attention lately. Revver 1.0 is built on Ruby on Rails — nothing like this has ever been done at this scale with Rails. We’re also using the Mongrel and lighttpd web servers, the Pound load balancer, and running it all off of an API we’ll fully open to the world in just a few months.

Speaking of that API.. it’s an implementation of the Twisted Python framework. Twisted is an event-driven networking framework that’s seen use in a lot of projects - for example, you may have heard of BitTorrent - of course there are many other interesting projects that use Twisted. Our implementation is notable given its heavy load - everything that the Revver site does is done through the API, from the moment you log in to the moment you fall asleep in front of your monitor after watching six hours’ worth of videos. That load is bound to increase, as we’ll be releasing the full API to the public at the end of October - everything the Revver site does, your site will be able to do. As a matter of fact, we’ll be giving you the code to Revver Classic as part of the SDK!

Those are the details, but here’s the short version: Revver runs on a chain of cutting-edge open source web technologies, each implemented at a significantly large scale, and we’re just about ready to share that power with anyone who wants to come to the party.