On the heels of launching his new service, CTO of MapleDaniel Cowgill sits down with Chris and Jeff to discuss the tech that went intolaunching a vertically integrated food delivery service.

The website is down

The financial district inManhattanis the current delivery zone for Maple

Maple uses Go and MongoDB

Dan’s only prior restaurant experience

I don’t want to taco ‘bout it

Other food delivery companies are trying different spins on delivery.Sprig has surge pricing andMunchery delivers food cold

Casper delivers mattresses by bike messenger in New YorkCity

Maple’s javascript frontend is using Reactand some Mithril internally

Deciding how to deliver their food in the most efficient way possible is morecomplex than just the travelling salesmanproblem

Maple ruled out using scala early on

Leaving node

Go doesn’t have generics

Nginx uses round-robin for loadbalancing bydefault

Maple is using Linode for now