Twitter’s record-breaking night killed the Fail Whale, no thanks to Ruby

Posted by lest on Wednesday November 07, 2012 @04:47PM
from the venturebeat.com dept.

http://venturebeat.com/2012/11/07/twitter-election-dev-post-mortem/

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Re:Twitter’s record-breaking night killed the Fail Whale, no... by mion on Wednesday November 07, 2012 @05:10PM (#4755429)

"Ouch, Ruby! You need some aloe for that burn?" It seems like every language/framework should be able to handle 1.5 billion queries per day without problems. Otherwise it sucks, right?

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