Comments on: Twitter: Ruby on Rails rules, but we're buckling from growth

Twitter bares more technical details in an effort to address complaints over slow performance.

[The_Decider]

More than likely it is incompetence on the part of Twitter. RoR can be scalable, stable, and fast, but not if the work is being done by idiots. Ruby is far and away superior to the craptastic PHP and at least as good as Python and Perl, Rails is so flexible and a joy to work with, but it still requires a bit of knowledge to effectively leverage. Its advantage over straight LAMP is that it enforces good development methods, but it can't do everything. The developer still has to be competent.

[livecrunch]

I don't even think that those guy's know what they code in. Code was written in python and some in RoR.

[mrohde]

"Legitimate users should never notice [the limits]" is as far from the mark as possible. Either they screwed up on programming the limits (no supprise if this is the case) or as a legitimate users I am noticing it. The 30 request limit kicked in after five requests in an hour.

As a more recent user of twitter I am starting I am quickly questioning the value.

[benjaminstraight]

Huh?