Twitter developer Alex Payne on Rails scalability: “Once you hit a certain threshold of traffic, either you need to strip out all the costly neat stuff that Rails does for you (RJS, ActiveRecord, ActiveSupport, etc.) or move the slow parts of your application out of Rails, or both.” DHH responds. Pilgrim has some fun at DHH’s expense.
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I think I recognize the “bug as feature” reasoning as part of the ArsDigita employee handbook. Although he’s left out the part about how you shouldn’t *want* to do anything the software can’t scale to …
Happy spring, Andrew.
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