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Key takeaway here: Ruby on Rails is the new, hot fad, but apparently doesn't scale in the way web languages should. Dropping ActiveRecord, for example, cuts out
by aston 20y ago
Key takeaway here: Ruby on Rails is the new, hot fad, but apparently doesn't scale in the way web languages should. Dropping ActiveRecord, for example, cuts out the main piece of RoR coolness I still liked.
- comatose_kid 20y agoDisagree. It seems more like they've optimized one part of their infrastructure, so now a new bottleneck has popped up. Par for the course when you're optimizing anything... Oh, and this interview was discussed by DHH on his blog: http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000608.html http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000608.html The comments were interesting, especially one from Alex Payne (the Twitter dev himself). Here is an excerpt. Visit the link above to read the full comment (which is kind of long to post fully inline here). "...We'd be running into scaling issues on Django or any other platform. We're happiest scaling on Rails."