[OmegaPG]

Do you think SO can handle 10% of its current traffic if built using Ruby on Rails?

I am building it for a region only so I know it can never get traffic comparable to SO.

[midrus]

They probably could handle it with perl and cgi scripts.

Most of their traffic is reads, and serving cached HTML is fast whatever backend framework you're using.

[softwaredoug]

I'm not some kind of Rails fanboy, but I do work at Shopify (runs on Rails). Also there's Github which is driven by Rails