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I keep hearing that Rails can be scaled, but how does that explain the fact that Twitter had to switch off of Rails in order to scale?
by mceoin 12y ago
I keep hearing that Rails can be scaled, but how does that explain the fact that Twitter had to switch off of Rails in order to scale?
- prtkgpt 12y agoWell, Shopify is built in rails and its scaling extremely well. Rails can be scaled!
- obiefernandez 12y agoTwitter has a many-faceted, hugely complex architecture that to my knowledge still includes Rails.
- javiayala 12y agoNot to mention that by the time that twitter needed to scale rails the framework itself was very different and a little less powerfull. That goes to ruby as well.
- dataminer 12y agoGithub seems to have scaled fine on Rails.
- adymo 12y agoRails, as any tool, has its limits. When you're doing things at Twitter's scale, you need other tools.
- stevejpurves 12y agoI like the point on pushing work into a query instead of doing it in rails/ruby. That's not just a rails thing but helps on any framework/platform.