Twitter had huge scaling problems. While I am a big fan of Rails and while it is wrong to suggest rails cannot scale, if you really hit twitter scale you are not going to want to use a general purpose web framework with a SQL data store. However, almost none of us hit that scale which is why I build sites in rails and am open to re-architecting if lightening happens to strike.
Best wishes, Peter Sent from my iPhone On Apr 4, 2011, at 7:54 PM, Clyde <[email protected]> wrote: > How many servers does Twitter have? I'm just curious how many > applications - in the real world - need scaling to the level discussed > here. I'm new to RoR and have spent my decades in computers building > much smaller scaled implementations. i.e. Corporate apps. So, I don't > really have a handle on this. > > However, I'm curious as to how big of an issue this really is. If > Twitter runs on RoR (and I'm told it does, but don't know any > details), that would seem to be a very large implementation. Are they > running into limitations? What systems are bigger than Twitter and how > much? Does anyone have any real data? > > Thanks, > Clyde > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
