Comments on: Twitter to jump off Ruby on Rails?

By: edhardy622

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By: Christophe Lauer, Blog Edition : Infrastructure, plate-forme, disponibilité et levée de fonds

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:28:57 +0000

[...] évoluer, et embauchez des bons codeurs", ie pour ceux qui ne l’auraient pas compris : abandonnez Ruby on Rails et passez à la plate-forme [...]

By: The New York Herald. : Twitter Gets VC Boost, Undisclosed But Est. at $15M

The New York Herald. : Twitter Gets VC Boost, Undisclosed But Est. at $15M — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:50:10 +0000

[...] should also noted that Twitter rides on Rails, and some have suggested a switch to PHP might help with scaling [...]

By: Twitter brings in big guns from Pivotal Labs to help rebuild its troubled infrastructure » VentureBeat

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:37:16 +0000

[...] Twitter, the messaging service that many of us love — and love to complain about when it experiences downtime — has hired a premier software development firm to help it rebuild its infrastructure, we’ve heard and confirmed with the company. The name of the firm is Pivotal Labs, a quiet but impressive group of big-gun, for-hire developers that already counts business software company SalesForce and a long list of startups as clients. From Twitter’s Biz Stone: Yes, we hired some smart folks from Pivotal Labs to join us in the office and get some work done. They start on Monday. We’re hiring full time employees too—there’s plenty of work to go around! San Francisco-based Twitter has had a near chronic problem keeping its site up as it has continued to grow (not unlike ourselves, as our readers may have noticed earlier today). Its chief software architect recently left and the company has been looking at options for rebuilding the site. [...]

By: handling community growing pains » nickbouton.com

handling community growing pains » nickbouton.com — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:35:15 +0000

[...] on a regular basis. Apparently, this causes Twitter to have fits. While many have tried to blame their technology platform, Ruby on Rails, for the scalability issues, Twitter has gone so far as to shift the blame [...]

By: Twitter: Don’t blame Ruby, blame Scoble » VentureBeat

Twitter: Don’t blame Ruby, blame Scoble » VentureBeat — Fri, 30 May 2008 06:29:21 +0000

[...] lot of commenters on this blog and others are quick to jump on and blame RoR, which has even led to rumors that Twitter was abandoning it. These turned out not to be true, and in fact Twitter will continue to use RoR for the time being [...]

By: Plurk: Twitter meets FriendFeed » VentureBeat

Plurk: Twitter meets FriendFeed » VentureBeat — Fri, 23 May 2008 02:12:33 +0000

[...] look at hiring one Mr. Woon to help solve their user interface issues, even if he can’t help them scale. //OBSTART:do_NOT_remove_this_comment var [...]

By: Twitter on its architecture: We can rebuild it. We have the technology. » VentureBeat

Thu, 22 May 2008 19:57:41 +0000

[...] (commenters on this blog and others at least) seem to have a major problem with. There were even rumors that Twitter was going to abandon Ruby on Rails. The service denied those [...]

By: Suya Sudeli

Suya Sudeli — Tue, 13 May 2008 15:50:16 +0000

Another (brand new) social networking totally built with RoR : http://www.hollamee.com. RoR ROCKS!!!!!

By: Anthony Ha

Anthony Ha — Fri, 02 May 2008 16:52:04 +0000

@Ezra Thanks for pointing that out; I’ve updated the story.

By: Grant

Grant — Fri, 02 May 2008 04:10:39 +0000

Sometimes i think rails’ newness has people looking for trouble – of the high-profile sites that i’m aware of running rails, twitter seems to be the only one with issues – and even then, what of twitter’s issues would be called “normal” downtime for a growing internet app if they were running php or another “more acceptable” technology?

By: Ezra

Ezra — Fri, 02 May 2008 00:40:11 +0000

Techrunch lies, twitter is not abandoning Rails: http://twitter.com/ev/statuses/801530348

By: MG Siegler

MG Siegler — Fri, 02 May 2008 00:06:43 +0000

@jay – yep, we’re seeing it on and off over here…

By: Jay (Twitter @qthrul)

Jay (Twitter @qthrul) — Fri, 02 May 2008 00:03:39 +0000

Did you get the 500 Server Error too?