> I think in the context of high performance it is pointless to talk about Rails. Even the memory requirements make it impossible scale above a certain (very lo

> I think in the context of high performance it is pointless to talk about Rails. Even the memory requirements make it impossible scale above a certain (very low) threshold. GitHub runs the vast majority of web requests through a giant Rails monolith; and they're not alone. I think calling it "impossible [to] scale above a certain (very low) threshold" is an uninformed opinion (and not supported by the evidence), to say the least.