I'm sure this has been on here before but this is a good follow up to that article and it's also from the chaps at Twitter: ---- For us, it's really about scal

I'm sure this has been on here before but this is a good follow up to that article and it's also from the chaps at Twitter: ---- For us, it's really about scaling horizontally - to that end, Rails and Ruby haven't been stumbling blocks, compared to any other language or framework. The performance boosts associated with a "faster" language would give us a 10-20% improvement, but thanks to architectural changes that Ruby and Rails happily accommodated, Twitter is 10000% faster than it was in January. ----- http://highscalability.com/scaling-twitter-making-twitter-10000-percent-faster http://highscalability.com/scaling-twitter-making-twitter-10...