By rick
via sitepoint.com
Published: Jun 06 2008 / 11:20
Twitter is arguably the most heavily used Ruby on Rails application in the world. Almost since its inception, Twitter has fostered a wildly passionate cult following. Also from the beginning, Twitter has suffered from chronic outages under that load.
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Comments
jjw.myopenid.com replied ago:
Summary: No.
daniel replied ago:
It's hard to say. I think that it's undeniable that Twitter would have been far more performant had it been written in a faster language with more mature deployment technologies, but on the flip side, Rails isn't imposing *that* much overhead. I agree with the article that there's got to be something more going on besides just simple framework choice.
jjw.myopenid.com replied ago:
Performance and scalability are different things. Scalability is largely a factor of the architecture. Rails deployment is not all that different than any other web application or share-nothing architecture... in fact, some of the deployment tools are pretty outstanding given their age.
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