Also who cares if Twitter had to move to another technology. 99.9999% of people will never ever have to face those issues.
Twitter would have hit the wall with any other tech, it just grew like crazy all of a sudden. The fact that it was able to get on its feet so fast though, that's thanks to Rails.
I think this whole "Rails doesn't scale" is the new "Java is slow". Baseless and ridiculous.
Twitter would have hit the wall with any other tech, it just grew like crazy all of a sudden. The fact that it was able to get on its feet so fast though, that's thanks to Rails.
I think this whole "Rails doesn't scale" is the new "Java is slow". Baseless and ridiculous.