3 ms·

It got solved by moving off of RoR...

• 83457 16y ago
  It 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 ago
  Not exactly. It got solved by a lot of changes to the underlying storage structure.
• mnutt 16y ago
  By 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.