Why we moved from NodeJS to Ruby on Rails

Re:Why we moved from NodeJS to Ruby on Rails by secoif on Monday May 14, 2012 @01:26PM (#3972072)

AFAIK Twitter still uses Rails for at least part of their app, perhaps just not for directly serving consumer requests

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Re:Why we moved from NodeJS to Ruby on Rails by simonw on Monday May 14, 2012 @01:46PM (#3972192)

I'm pretty sure they still use Rails for the HTML application that you see when you visit twitter.com - it's the backend stuff (the data storage layer, the message queues, the API etc) that's been ported over to Scala/Java.

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Re:Why we moved from NodeJS to Ruby on Rails by VeejayRampay on Monday May 14, 2012 @04:40PM (#3973144)

Also who cares if Twitter had to move to another technology. 99.9999% of people will never ever have to face those issues.

Twitter would have hit the wall with any other tech, it just grew like crazy all of a sudden. The fact that it was able to get on its feet so fast though, that's thanks to Rails.

I think this whole "Rails doesn't scale" is the new "Java is slow". Baseless and ridiculous.

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