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True that. Even LOLCODE can scale :) Twitter's problems are very specific to twitter - Mega throughput (~7000 Tweets per second) in realtime, sharded DBs requir
by gr3g 15y ago
True that. Even LOLCODE can scale :) Twitter's problems are very specific to twitter - Mega throughput (~7000 Tweets per second) in realtime, sharded DBs requiring multiple connections etc.
Ruby will give you a significant time to market advantage especially if you are a startup.
- jacques_chester 15y agoMy understanding is that the particular scaling problem of twitter is high fanout through subscriptions. Receiving 7k messages per second and storing them in a database is actually fairly straightforward.