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> Rails and Django have moved from the obscure into the mainstream. For prototyping, maybe (and even that is arguable). In practice, I see a lot more companie
by laureny 13y ago
> Rails and Django have moved from the obscure into the mainstream.
For prototyping, maybe (and even that is arguable).
In practice, I see a lot more companies moving away from these frameworks toward JVM-based frameworks than the other way around.
These frameworks simply don't scale past the size of a small project.
- mattmcknight 13y agoDjango and Rails both run on the JVM. Both have scaled to massive projects, even without the JVM.
- brnlsl 13y agoBuilt with Rails: Github, Groupon, YellowPages, BaseCamp, Scribd, Shopify, Posterous, Airbnb, Urban Dictionary, Bleacher Report, Kickstarter... These are not small projects.
- bjt 13y ago> These frameworks simply don't scale past the size of a small project. That is incorrect. From the Django side, see Instagram (http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/13649370142/what-powers-instagram-hundreds-of-instances-dozens-of http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/13649370142/wha...) and Disqus (http://blog.disqus.com/post/62187806135/scaling-django-to-8-billion-page-views http://blog.disqus.com/post/62187806135/scaling-django-to-8-...).