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They should send this open letter to Heroku as well :)

• jaggederest 14y ago
  Historically, running Ruby on Joyent was an exercise in frustration. Heroku isn't only Ruby these days, but operating as a stable ruby platform is still a requirement I think. Among other things: Solaris threading libs with crashy bugs when you pop a new thread open. Took quite a while to figure that one out.
  • lolwutreddit 14y ago
    It's annoying that the two people that try to tell me that "Rails doesn't scale" are also Joyent customers. I tell them, "no, you can't scale Rails".
  • patrickgzill 14y ago
    It is perhaps a difference in thread creation semantics, or something like that. But, Solaris threading has been rock solid for many, many years.
    • jaggederest 14y ago
      Not in my direct confirmed experience. pthread lib on Joyent's particularly weird version of solaris was f'd hard.