Comments on: Twitter Admits: Ruby On Rails Can’t Scale

By: Brayn vision » Cum iti alegi limbajul de programare

Brayn vision » Cum iti alegi limbajul de programare — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:30:26 +0000

[...] nu. Si nu din cauza discutiilor legate de scalabilitatea RoR (vezi si discutiile legate de Tiwitter) sau a problemelor de [...]

By: Ruby on Rails and Twitter « a regular expression

Ruby on Rails and Twitter « a regular expression — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 03:39:34 +0000

[...] IM hasn’t worked in at least a week, and searching is spotty at best. There are also multiple articles on the Internet discussing Twitters problems with RoR as its application [...]

By: twitter

twitter — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:01:51 +0000

[...] exactly a poster-child for ruby on rails, is [...]

By: Primate Labs Blog : Popular

Primate Labs Blog : Popular — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:10:49 +0000

[...] a bit of background, the Geekbench Result Browser is a Ruby on Rails application, which has a reputation for not scaling well. While this hasn’t been a problem in the past, it’s been a problem today, since the [...]

By: RailsNewB

RailsNewB — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 05:54:53 +0000

it is true that performance != to scalability…

are there many other resources out there regarding scaling with rails yet? From the bottom up? I see that tutorial posted on the rails site, but it is sold out.

By: Twitter starting to get de-Railed - Thinking Outloud

Twitter starting to get de-Railed - Thinking Outloud — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 22:30:52 +0000

By: Lars Fischer

Lars Fischer — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 11:42:42 +0000

Actually, Twitter does scale now. So it can’t be the programming framework. The 37signals apps scale too.

By: Josh Charles

Josh Charles — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 20:23:49 +0000

“In order to get their AJAX goodness, they use Ruby on Rails”

I highly doubt this is correct, and you saying something like this tells me you know very little about Ruby on Rails. It’s not about AJAX, though it integrates with AJAX very well.

By: Ratchetcat

Ratchetcat — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:50:14 +0000

This is a complete misrepresentation of what the Twitter developer said. So complete, in fact, that one wonders if that was your intent. As many, many people have pointed out — including the Twitter developer — the scaling problem Twitter is facing is related to the database layer, not the application framework.

By: peter

peter — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:50:25 +0000

Sorry, I don’t get that.
Basecamp is from 37signals
Twitter is from Obvious.

AFAIK these are two completely diffent companies.