Depuis, ils sont revenus sur leurs propos. En particulier, leurs problèmes de montée en charge étaient dûs à des problèmes d'architecture, et non à rails.
We hit some scaling stumbling blocks a few months back, but not because Ruby or Rails was working against us.
For us, it’s really about scaling horizontally - to that end, Rails and Ruby haven’t been stumbling blocks, compared to any other language or framework. The performance boosts associated with a “faster” language would give us a 10-20% improvement, but thanks to architectural changes that Ruby and Rails happily accommodated, Twitter is 10000% faster than it was in January.
[^] # Re: J'aime de moins en moins le rail
Posté par Bruno Michel (site web personnel) . En réponse au journal Recherche développeur Ruby / Ruby on Rails (Paris). Évalué à 2.
We hit some scaling stumbling blocks a few months back, but not because Ruby or Rails was working against us.
Source : http://twitter.com/blog/2007/06/under-hood-at-twitter.html
For us, it’s really about scaling horizontally - to that end, Rails and Ruby haven’t been stumbling blocks, compared to any other language or framework. The performance boosts associated with a “faster” language would give us a 10-20% improvement, but thanks to architectural changes that Ruby and Rails happily accommodated, Twitter is 10000% faster than it was in January.
Source : http://highscalability.com/scaling-twitter-making-twitter-10(...)