Thursday, August 28, 2008

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Twitter dumping Ruby on Rails?

68DD6C0E-1FD0-4B3F-AC8D-1CCA929EEAAE.jpgShortly after eWeek published an article arguing that “Twitter’s reliance on Ruby and Ruby on Rails proves the language’s resilience,” newsbreaker TechCruch reported that “After nearly two years of high profile scaling problems, Twitter is planning to abandon Ruby on Rails as their web framework and start from scratch with PHP or Java[.]” For non-geeks: Ruby on Rails is a way to write applications in a fast and easy manner, and the system has a devoted following. However, there have always been questions about whether a Rails application could scale to handle millions of users. Twitter’s hiccups have Rails’ devotees and detractors in a tizzy. Read the story.

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