Welcome to the Babbel Tech Blog

Hello World! Welcome to the Babbel Tech Blog.

From today on, we, the Babbel engineering team, would like to share our experiences about developing and maintaining the Babbel platform: The website, various mobile apps and the infrastructure behind it.

Some information about us and our infrastructure:

• We are currently 25 FTE in the engineering department growing rapidly and about 12 FTE in product development.
• For our web applications, we are developing in Ruby and Javascript (and CoffeeScript).
• We are developing mobile applications for iOS, Android and Windows (Phone and 8), and thus, using Objective C, Java and C#.
• Most of our web applications are Ruby on Rails applications, some special purpose applications like our tracker is written in node.js
• The infrastructure running our web applications is hosted on AWS, mostly on OpsWorks, some an Elastic Beanstalk.

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