On the heels of launching his new service, CTO of Maple Daniel Cowgill sits down with Chris and Jeff to discuss the tech that went into launching a vertically integrated food delivery service.
The financial district in Manhattan is the current delivery zone for Maple
Dan’s only prior restaurant experience
Other food delivery companies are trying different spins on delivery. Sprig has surge pricing and Munchery delivers food cold
Casper delivers mattresses by bike messenger in New York City
Maple’s javascript frontend is using React and some Mithril internally
Deciding how to deliver their food in the most efficient way possible is more complex than just the travelling salesman problem
Maple ruled out using scala early on
Nginx uses round-robin for load balancing by default
Maple is using Linode for now