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I think you answered the question. You scale Rails by slowly replacing it. The problem with their architecture is that they hadn't done that yet. Node is handli

• cygwin98 15y ago
  Maybe I didn't make myself clear. My point was that their Rails implementation may not be well written, i.e., not architect-ed properly since beginning. You cannot simply throw a few tables and scaffolds and hope it scale. That way may work for small apps, definitely not for web-scale apps like this. To be fair, Node.js also has its own quirks, besides the callback maintenance issues, I also mentioned in another post that Node.js is not as scalable as a lot of people present it to be.
• mark_story 15y ago
  Comparing rails and nodejs isn't really a fair fight. Rails has a ton of shiny bits that bare node simply doesn't. Comparing the two on speed alone isn't going to be overly productive.