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That's right they'd probably be struggling to scale Ruby on Rails like Twitter who started 2 years after facebook.
by rythie 10y ago
That's right they'd probably be struggling to scale Ruby on Rails like Twitter who started 2 years after facebook.
- nkozyra 10y agoTo be fair, FB struggled to scale with PHP, although it certainly fares better out of the box (even then). A lot of their work has gone into making PHP more performant and better by way of Hack. PHP7 took a lot of great ideas from Hack but is still saddled with its legacy.
- rythie 10y agoThey did? I remember numerous Twitter outages due to scale and the infamous Fail Whale. Twitter's issues risked the company losing users or even it's sustainability as a business. Never remember Facebook having much issue.