Scalability, Ruby On Rails and Twitter
May 1st 2007NiaLLLarkinUncategorized
Twitter developer Alex Payne is quite forthright and candid about what they have discovered via the experience of deploying the world’s biggest Ruby on Rails app. here
All the convenience methods and syntactical sugar that
makes Rails such a pleasure for coders ends up being absolutely
punishing, performance-wise.All of us working on Twitter are big
Ruby fans, but I think it’s worth being frank that this isn’t one of
those relativistic language issues. Ruby is slow.
Food for thought.
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Clunky Flow » Building scalable web apps on 03 May 2007 at 5:52 pm #
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