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AFAIK Twitter still uses Rails for at least part of their app, perhaps just not for directly serving consumer requests
by secoif 14y ago
AFAIK Twitter still uses Rails for at least part of their app, perhaps just not for directly serving consumer requests
- simonw 14y agoI'm pretty sure they still use Rails for the HTML application that you see when you visit twitter.com - it's the backend stuff (the data storage layer, the message queues, the API etc) that's been ported over to Scala/Java.
- VeejayRampay 14y agoAlso who cares if Twitter had to move to another technology. 99.9999% of people will never ever have to face those issues. Twitter would have hit the wall with any other tech, it just grew like crazy all of a sudden. The fact that it was able to get on its feet so fast though, that's thanks to Rails. I think this whole "Rails doesn't scale" is the new "Java is slow". Baseless and ridiculous.