Twitter, Rails, Hammers, and 11,000 Nails per Second — Thought Palace

Filed under: scaling, rails, rubyonrails, performance, del.icio.us, twitter, link-blogging - 20 Apr 2007

There’s an interesting kerfluffle going on regarding the scaling woes that Twitter.com is going through, especially since it’s built on Ruby On Rails.

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