[programminggeek]

I like Ruby and Sinatra, but PHP with a decent Sinatra equivalent framework like Slim would be just as nice, or Python+flask/bottle, or Java/Scala and the Play framework. Honestly, it doesn't matter.

Use what you know and like and just build the app. Scaling is a nice problem to have, but don't solve it until you have it.

[rscale]

Use what you know and like and just build the app.

And for a large app, use what the team knows. Both dev and ops.

Scaling is a nice problem to have, but don't solve it until you have it.

And since scaling issues are mostly matters of architecture, rather than language, see rule one: "use what you know."