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There's an important point that is getting missed here. Twitter uses multiple technologies, not just Rails. Everyone who hopes that their site grows to a Twit
by sanj 19y ago
There's an important point that is getting missed here.
Twitter uses multiple technologies, not just Rails.
Everyone who hopes that their site grows to a Twitteresque-size should design a system such that components (db, messaging, processing, frontend) are decoupled enough that they can be swapped (ideally transparently) if/when they become the bottleneck.
- nickb 19y agoMore details on that statement: "Selvitelle told eWEEK that reports of Twitter abandoning Rails are "Not true in any sense. We use Ruby as our primary language. We have plenty of back-end architecture in other languages. Especially prototypes. We still use Rails and have no plans to discontinue this in the future." http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Ruby-Rails-Give-Twitter-its-Tweet/ http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Ruby-Rails-...