DanielMiessler

Ruby Is Slow, and Rails Doesn’t Scale Well

Created/Updated: December 5, 2018

When this talk comes from a Twitter developer, who loves both Ruby and Rails and happen to be running probably the most punished RoR site on the Internet right now, I’m inclined to believe. (they’re taking over 11,000 requests per second during peak times). Here are a few quotes from the interview: Once you hit a certain threshold…

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