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ActiveRecord was never rewritten in C. Twitter's problems stemmed from the fact that they had written a realtime messaging system, but designed it like a microb
by texel 16y ago
ActiveRecord was never rewritten in C. Twitter's problems stemmed from the fact that they had written a realtime messaging system, but designed it like a microblogging platform. The design wouldn't have scaled well, regardless of the technology they used.
- jarin 16y agoOh you're right, I was thinking of the MySQL bindings (don't know where the original ones are at) https://github.com/brianmario/mysql2/tree/master/ext/mysql2 https://github.com/brianmario/mysql2/tree/master/ext/mysql2