Twitter: Ruby on Rails rules, but we're buckling from growth

Courtesy CNET Tech blog  Fri, 05/30/2008 - 9:31am

Are Twitter's performance problems due to flimsy engineering or the choice of Ruby on Rails to build the application?

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In the Twitter developer blog on Thursday, an engineer said that Ruby on Rails still rocks as a Web development platform.

The service's woes are due more to a ...


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