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Re:Twitter Said To Be Abandoning Ruby on Rails by aneesh on Thursday May 01, 2008 @05:43PM (#178985)
Just curious, what would you write the backend for AIM in? I don't have any experience developing messaging-type apps.
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Re:Twitter Said To Be Abandoning Ruby on Rails by yan on Thursday May 01, 2008 @06:06PM (#179011)
Erlang is a fine option. So is C.
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Re:Twitter Said To Be Abandoning Ruby on Rails by mosburger on Thursday May 01, 2008 @06:41PM (#179042)
Dang - I was going to say Erlang. This is an ideal application for Erlang... scalability and uptime. There's a reason it's heritage is in the teleco industry.
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Re:Twitter Said To Be Abandoning Ruby on Rails by davidw on Friday May 02, 2008 @03:39AM (#179312)
I went and had a look at the slides for their 'scaling twitter' presentation, and it looks like they had a look at Erlang and reacted with some silly "ooh, it looks ugly" sort of comment. Seems pretty silly to reject something out of hand that is very much along the lines of what you need.
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Re:Twitter Said To Be Abandoning Ruby on Rails by axod on Thursday May 01, 2008 @07:25PM (#179081)
Java would work extremely well.
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Re:Twitter Said To Be Abandoning Ruby on Rails by menloparkbum on Thursday May 01, 2008 @05:45PM (#178991)
C.
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