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by elchief 4968 days ago
JVM is a wonderful thing.
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camus 4968 days ago
Github and the thousands of Rails powered websites have no problem scaling, so i'm pretty sure neither Ruby nor Rails are a problem.
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jacques_chester 4968 days ago
Github is an easier problem: generate pages.

Twitter has to deal with very high fanout and low cacheability.

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thebluesky 4968 days ago
With enough hardware you can make virtually anything scale, for a price...
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camus 4968 days ago
Well github is quite profitable , maybe that's twitter's problem... what service does twitter provides that people are willing to pay for ? None...
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elchief 4968 days ago
500 million users is more a little more demanding than 2 million users.
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