Twitter Said To Be Abandoning Ruby on Rails

Re:Twitter Said To Be Abandoning Ruby on Rails by bjclark on Thursday May 01, 2008 @06:09PM (#179012)

Yeah for people having never heard of Erlang.

When I wonder why Facebook doesn't have problem scaling their chat? Oh, erlang + flat files.

I can't wait for Twitter to move to Java or PHP so people finally STFU about Rails.

Twitter moving away from rails doens't make rails look bad, it makes everyone at Twitter look like the biggest jackasses in history.

"We can't get this wrench to hit this nail hard enough, so lets buy another brand of wrench instead of a hammer and see if that works."

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Re:Twitter Said To Be Abandoning Ruby on Rails by aschobel on Thursday May 01, 2008 @07:02PM (#179064)

Do you have any more info on Facebook's chat architecture or were you just speculating?

A quick Google of "erlang facebook chat flat file" returns your initial post, would love to read more about that if have anything.

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Re:Twitter Said To Be Abandoning Ruby on Rails by bjclark on Friday May 02, 2008 @12:45AM (#179236)

My knowledge of Facebook's chat architecture comes from drunken conversations with Facebook engineers at bars. So no, I don't think I know any more than that. hiccup

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Re:Twitter Said To Be Abandoning Ruby on Rails by t0pj on Thursday May 01, 2008 @06:33PM (#179035)

Picking between the wrench and hammer is never a problem.

All tools tend to look like hammers when all problems are seen as a subset of nails.

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