Rails Performance – What You Need To Know

Re:Rails Performance – What You Need To Know by mceoin on Thursday August 07, 2014 @12:39PM (#8148665)

I keep hearing that Rails can be scaled, but how does that explain the fact that Twitter had to switch off of Rails in order to scale?

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Re:Rails Performance – What You Need To Know by adymo on Thursday August 07, 2014 @01:09PM (#8148807)

Rails, as any tool, has its limits. When you're doing things at Twitter's scale, you need other tools.

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Re:Rails Performance – What You Need To Know by stevejpurves on Thursday August 07, 2014 @03:18PM (#8149581)

I like the point on pushing work into a query instead of doing it in rails/ruby. That's not just a rails thing but helps on any framework/platform.

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Re:Rails Performance – What You Need To Know by dataminer on Thursday August 07, 2014 @01:04PM (#8148793)

Github seems to have scaled fine on Rails.

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Re:Rails Performance – What You Need To Know by obiefernandez on Thursday August 07, 2014 @12:53PM (#8148726)

Twitter has a many-faceted, hugely complex architecture that to my knowledge still includes Rails.

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Re:Rails Performance – What You Need To Know by javiayala on Thursday August 07, 2014 @12:58PM (#8148752)

Not to mention that by the time that twitter needed to scale rails the framework itself was very different and a little less powerfull. That goes to ruby as well.

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Re:Rails Performance – What You Need To Know by prtkgpt on Thursday August 07, 2014 @12:44PM (#8148688)

Well, Shopify is built in rails and its scaling extremely well. Rails can be scaled!

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