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Scalability for web applications has -nothing to do with the programming language-. PHP, Ruby, Python, ASP.net, they all use the same strategies to scale. Thr

by teej 18y ago

Scalability for web applications has -nothing to do with the programming language-. PHP, Ruby, Python, ASP.net, they all use the same strategies to scale. Three things: cache religiously, index well, and refactor your database queries. Take it from me: I've worked on a Java site with over 2 million monthly uniques. I built a Ruby on Rails app from the ground up that grew to over 15 million pageviews a day. I also helped build a PHP-backed api the handled a few million hits a month. I'm sick and tired of the "X scales better than Y" debate. It's pointless.

dasil003 18y ago
Not only pointless but willfully ignorant. Think about it, people who say one language is more scalable than another don't even understand scaling means. Only slightly better are the religious rants about some framework or another. In reality, the most a language or framework can provide is a slight head start in terms of absolute performance. The dominant factor will always be nature of the application.
bk 18y ago
> Three things: cache religiously, index well, and refactor your database queries. In other words: database, database, database. I can only confirm this, scaling app servers in virtually any language is trivial compared to scaling databases.