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Twitter Reportedly May Abandon Ruby On Rails

Posted by kdawson on from the call-it-a-derailing dept.

Raster Burn writes "According to TechCrunch, Twitter has plans to abandon Ruby on Rails after two years of scalability issues. Candidates to replace Rails are said to be PHP, Java, and Ruby without the Rails framework." The post links a brief comment (at 139 characters, probably a tweet) from Twitter founder Ev Williams saying it ain't so. The comments following the post embody the controversy over whether or not RoR sucks.

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  1. Re:What is Twitter? by revscat · · Score: 5, Informative

    Twitter is a major site, even if you yourself have never heard of it, with many tens of thousands of users. As such it is felt by many to by *the* flagship RoR application. Unfortunately it has suffered from numerous outages, some of these lasting days at a time.

  2. Does a clean architecture matter? by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I have an argument with a coworker frequently about architectural orthogonality vs performance. I fall on the "architecture should be clean and easy to understand and maintain" side of the argument and he falls on the "speed, memory, and response time at all cost" side.

    What is more important? Is developer time and productivity over the software lifetime more valuable than CPU cycles? If the price of that productivity imposes a maximum limit on performance, how much optimization should be undertaken?

    It's a hard question to answer. On the one hand employees are expensive and hardware is cheap. On the other hand, you can't simply forego developing for performance just because of some religious belief that architecture should be clean.

  3. Re:What is Twitter? by nine-times · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think it is one of the most usless things on the face of the earth but it seems popular for some strange reason.

    Most popular things are useless.

  4. Ruby Can't Scale by Foofoobar · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And for all those Ruby people in denial to the fact that people have been saying this for years, here is your proof yet again. Of course I will be marked down as being a troll for pointing this out by the RUBY comunity but it is time that they acknowledge the inherent achilles heel of the language.

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  5. Re:What is Twitter? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    See Hilton, Paris

  6. Re:I'm surprised they didn't do it sooner by neoform · · Score: 5, Funny

    That sounds like advanced stuff to me.

    On an unrelated note, is anyone here good with hello world programs? Mine keeps crashing.

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