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Re:Twitter Said To Be Abandoning Ruby on Rails by axod on Thursday May 01, 2008 @07:22PM (#179077)
Having 10,000 servers doesn't say 'skillful' to me.
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Re:Twitter Said To Be Abandoning Ruby on Rails by bluelu on Thursday May 01, 2008 @07:36PM (#179090)
Facebook's system is also 1000x times more complicated than twitter's simple message passing system!
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Re:Twitter Said To Be Abandoning Ruby on Rails by fendale on Friday May 02, 2008 @07:17AM (#179371)
For me, Facebook often seems very sluggish and slow - I have a pretty useful 4Meg connection and others sites are fine - maybe 10,000 servers is part of the problem - it seems like a ridiculously high number. I wonder how many transactions/pasge views per second they get ...
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