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Twitter had scalability problems and they were on RoR, but it got solved. Scaling to those levels is always going to uncover problems in your architecture. What
by thematt 16y ago
Twitter had scalability problems and they were on RoR, but it got solved. Scaling to those levels is always going to uncover problems in your architecture. What mattered was the way MySpace chose to execute, not the technology they did it with.
- jcromartie 16y agoIt got solved by moving off of RoR...
- 83457 16y agoIt got solved is the important thing. From everything I've heard about MySpace, technology was not the real issues but rather management, development pratices, etc.
- rbanffy 16y agoNot exactly. It got solved by a lot of changes to the underlying storage structure.
- mnutt 16y agoBy moving the part that wasn't scaling off rails. From what I understand they had a giant monolithic rails app which just couldn't scale after a point. They moved to a services-based approach, with a rails frontend talking to scala services.