Re:Heroku's Ugly Secret: The story of how the cloud-king tur...
by doktrin on Thursday February 14, 2013 @03:54AM
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I think statements like these obscure away the very tight coupling Heroku has historically had with Rails. While certainly Heroku now perhaps envisions itself as a do-it-all PaaS, there's no denying Rails at one point (and, numerically, perhaps still) was their bread and butter.
While I don't have numbers to support or refute the assertion that "most Rails apps are primarily single threaded", my suspicion is that this is in fact still the case.
I think statements like these obscure away the very tight coupling Heroku has historically had with Rails. While certainly Heroku now perhaps envisions itself as a do-it-all PaaS, there's no denying Rails at one point (and, numerically, perhaps still) was their bread and butter.
While I don't have numbers to support or refute the assertion that "most Rails apps are primarily single threaded", my suspicion is that this is in fact still the case.