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I thought it was odd Rails wasn't mentioned as well, as that has quite a bit to do with twitters scalability issues.
by brandonkm 18y ago
I thought it was odd Rails wasn't mentioned as well, as that has quite a bit to do with twitters scalability issues.
- tonystubblebine 18y agoActually, it's refreshing because despite what most commentators say, most insiders I've talked to don't think Rails has anything to do with the scalability issues. Rails just serves the web pages. If you give it the right data it'll scale just fine. The problem is getting it the right data. You'll notice right now that some features on the web are off and they're all because they're intensive queries in the current architecture. IM is disabled right now. That doesn't touch Rails in any way. This isn't to say that Rails has been without problems. I'm sure they've had to make many adjustments and probably dealt with some reliability problems. But I can't think of and haven't heard of a convincing argument for why Rails is the bottleneck to their scaling.
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- scott_s 18y agoPlease explain how you know this.