Always interesting to read about real-world usage of different tools and languages. From the article: ... • MySQL (plus sharding) scales, apps don't. • Red

Always interesting to read about real-world usage of different tools and languages. From the article: ... • MySQL (plus sharding) scales, apps don't. • Redis is amazing. • Scala apps perform fantastically. ... Some of the organizations (Including Tumblr) using Scala were discussed as part of this talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqQNqIy5LdM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqQNqIy5LdM and slides here: http://mrkn.co/s/video_martin_odersky_what_s_next_for_scala,575/index.html http://mrkn.co/s/video_martin_odersky_what_s_next_for_scala,...