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What was Twitter’s bottleneck? I remember they were one of the first to really adopt Scala. They still use it quite successfully.
by melling 7y ago
What was Twitter’s bottleneck?
I remember they were one of the first to really adopt Scala. They still use it quite successfully.
- digianarchist 7y agoI have a vague recollection that Ruby was their bottleneck.
- niyazpk 7y agoRuby may be slower than other languages, but generally speaking your scalability issues will never be solved by rewriting in another language. A rewrite may give you a temporary relief if the runtime of your new language is say 10% faster than your current one. This is not a long term solution though, and for many startups in hyper growth state, this will just give you a few more weeks of runway until you run into the next roadblock. Your solution to scalability issues should almost always be system redesign, not component rewrite.