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does twitter still use mostly ruby? i remember hearing something about scaling problems that were supposedly caused by ruby.
by rajpaul 15y ago
does twitter still use mostly ruby? i remember hearing something about scaling problems that were supposedly caused by ruby.
- BillSaysThis 15y agoThey switched the code requiring high performance to Scala a couple of years ago.
- rbranson 15y agoThe "new" interface is actually entirely JavaScript and just exchanges JSON with an HTTP endpoint. This removes a big chunk of "slow" in Rails, which is view rendering. Of course, the actual services behind this endpoint could be based on Scala or Rails or any other language and are probably heavily cached.