On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:10 AM, p_W<[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. >
Their main scalability issue was the messaging system they wrote in Ruby to control the application backend and this is the part of their infrastructure that got replaced by a Scala equivalent. High end messaging systems in Ruby are still years away from the ones you can find in Java. - Maurício Linhares http://codeshooter.wordpress.com/ | http://twitter.com/mauriciojr --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
