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Agreed, that's a sweeping statement to make on Rails scalability. Just trying to make a point though. :-) As for Goliath - we will. Time is the scarcest resour
by igrigorik 16y ago
Agreed, that's a sweeping statement to make on Rails scalability. Just trying to make a point though. :-)
As for Goliath - we will. Time is the scarcest resource in a startup, and that's why haven't opened it up already. We need to get some documentation in place, and remove a few dependencies.
Point is though, there is nothing inherently novel in our stack! All off the shelf pieces: thin, async-rank, async middleware, em drivers + em-synchrony.
- stanleydrew 16y agoTo be clear, I understand fully that time is limited in a startup. I'm not sure you should spend the time to clean up and generalize your Goliath stuff. It may not be worth it. But in the context of this post, it just came off as a little bit "holier-than-thou" to hear you say more-or-less: jeez everybody, what's your problem? We've solved this so why is it taking everyone else so long to catch up? Now I believe you didn't mean it that way, but it seems like a helpful way to push things forward is to release bits and pieces of what you have, or at least write up a bit more detailed descriptions of the various pieces. That would be very helpful :)
- grandalf 16y agoI think his point was that Postrank needed performance characteristics that are not consistent with Rails' strengths. While the article came off as a rant (probably to help with publicity) it was more of an ad for Postrank and possibly for Goliath.