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Re:Does it scale? Who cares (2011) by jaimex2 on Sunday April 09, 2017 @07:11AM (#14071692)
You started with Java... a language designed to handle credit card transactions world wide. Your story would be very different if you started with say Rails.
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Re:Does it scale? Who cares (2011) by timewarrior on Sunday April 09, 2017 @03:58PM (#14074067)
If you build stateless horizontally scalable service (and you should) - you are almost always going to be blocked on DB. On the app server front you just keep adding more machines behind load balancer.

As I look back, if we had used RoR or Python we might have moved faster with no negative impact on scale. We would have spent more money on extra servers though!

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