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Twitter Fails Macworld Keynote Test
- pius 19y agoCue the Chicken Littles: "ZOMG! I told you Rails doesn't scale -- back to PHP for me!"
- irrelative 19y agoI certainly wouldn't blame this on anyone but twitter. Twitter has probably the highest popularity/uptime ratio in the web 2.0 industry. The site is routinely down during regular hours -- it was just a matter of time until they went down during a high profile event.
- michaelneale 19y agoIs it still a rails app? just seems silly to take a message, store it in a database, and then read it out again almost instantly (and over time there is no point to even have it in a database). Bizarre use of rails.
- henning 19y agoThe data they store is so simple and non-relational that they should be making heavy use of memcached and/or BerkeleyDB and/or flat files and/or something else extremely fast and simple.
- henning 19y agoIndeed. It's possible to create half-assed underengineered solutions on any application platform.