On Aug 13, 2008, at 8:25 PM, Ted Roche wrote:
> But the problems with Twitter aren't some evil proprietary licensing
> issues or something; it's just scaling the hardware to handle the
> load. "Just."
I've heard it's more of a software scaling issue, but not being on
the inside, I'm just taking others' word for it. The Rails app that
runs Twitter was never intended to handle the kind of load that it does.
-- Ed Leafe
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