Twitter had a problem because they were not prepared for their popularity. From what I have heard, their scalability issues stem mainly from an improper database schema.
They are also NOT moving to PHP. The last I've heard, they were changing their backend over to Scala, which is a functional language that runs on the JavaVM. Here is a good article about the 'scalability' issue: http://work.tinou.com/2009/06/scalas-dirty-little-secret-to-scalability.html >From everything I've heard, Rails has scalability issues if you don't put some thought into the application building process. On the Ruby side on things, RubyEE is said to have some benefits for speeding up Ruby execution. On Jul 27, 6:38 am, Karthikeyan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have heard that ROR has scalability problems. I have heard that > Twitter which used rails has abandoned it and is moving to PHP. Is it > true? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
