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> It may not be the fastest ( or in fact quite slow ) Web is not CPU bound, it's memory and network bound. Rails can run huge traffic perfectly fine if you kno
by aledalgrande 4y ago
> It may not be the fastest ( or in fact quite slow )
Web is not CPU bound, it's memory and network bound. Rails can run huge traffic perfectly fine if you know how to code for performance (e.g. caches, async with Kafka etc.) Ruby had also pretty significant speed improvements in the last years.
- herbst 4y agoThis! Having served multiple thousand users at once from a cheap $15 DO box the thing about rails performance is just how you built it. The tools are there, you just need to understand and use them.