Twitter is beyond the scale of most businesses. This -- whether Scala or Java or PhP or RonR or Python -- is the best choice for our code base generating millions of hits per day is a problem many of us would love to have!
Agreed. Build for the problems you face now - not the problems you may theoretically have in the future.
If a business grows that rapidly - it is most likely that the original systems will have evolved dramatically from day one anyway - in ways you wouldn't have imagined.
If a business grows that rapidly - it is most likely that the original systems will have evolved dramatically from day one anyway - in ways you wouldn't have imagined.