Twitter Said To Be Abandoning Ruby on Rails - The Diigo Meta page

• 31 Oct 09
  

  Yi Wang

  Twitter Ruby on Rails news

  • planning to abandon Ruby on Rails as their web framework and start from scratch with PHP or Java
  • Other massive Rails sites include Scribd, Hulu, and the popular Facebook app Friends for Sale. CrunchBase, our tech company database, is also built on Rails.
• 14 Apr 09
  

  charles edwards

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• 22 Mar 09
  

  Nawsher Noor

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• 16 May 08
  

  Elijah Lofgren

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• 11 May 08
  

  Tangthon

  We’re hearing this from multiple sources: After nearly two years of high profile scaling problems, Twitter is planning to abandon Ruby on Rails as their web framework and start from scratch with PHP or Java (another solution is to stick with the Ruby la

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• 03 May 08
  

  FruFru FourOne

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  Kenyth Zeng

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  • After nearly two years of high profile scaling problems, Twitter is planning to abandon Ruby on Rails as their web framework and start from scratch with PHP or Java (another solution is to stick with the Ruby language and move away from the Rails framework).
  • Other massive Rails sites include Scribd, Hulu, and the popular Facebook app Friends for Sale. CrunchBase
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  • • last year, Yellowpages.com scrapped Java for Rails, and is now second on the unofficial Rails 100 wiki.
    • PHP is a template language meaning that it’s a language that works within a template system (in this case, HTML). That makes building smaller templates very easy and fast.
    • Django is a template system within a language
    • i heard facebook has problems scaling PHP….they are adding hardware like crazy to scale…..may be java, c++ might work better for massive operations
    • NGiNX + Mongrel + Merb + RoR => Awesome performance and scalability, people should get informed before writing.
    • Any framework based on Java or PHP is inherently doomed to failure, because Java is a terrible language for web development, and PHP is just a terrible language.
• 02 May 08
  

  marc uhlig

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  Ken Wei

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  Mike Barone

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