Rails, Twitter and the 800lb Gorilla in the Room…

A link published by James Bennett on April 15, 2007. Tagged with frameworks, optimization, rails and scaling. No comments posted.

Why shouldn’t we extend the concept of “no premature optimisation” to language and platform selection? If Twitter had chosen an “enterprise” class platform and tried to architect for 11k reqs/sec, chances are they would still be building…

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