Twitter moving away from Ruby on Rails

Filed Under (General) by Wenbert on 03-05-2008

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This may be a rumor but Techcrunch is reporting that Twitter is abandoning Ruby on Rails due to scalability issues. I have read a few articles a while back about people having problems with Ruby on Rails. That is why I was hesitant to use Ruby on Rails on some of my web applications (at work). I was hesitant so therefore never got to learn it either :(.

Personally, I think the best bet for Twitter would be PHP. I would trust my life with PHP especially with scalability issues. Techcrunch also mentioned Java, but I doubt Java would work for them. Remember Friendster a few years back? It had a .jsp extension in the URL and it was almost unusable. It was dead slow.

The developers of Twitter can write a clone within a day and no one would notice it. They should use the Zend Framework :P Anyways, PHP is FTW!

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  1. Although TechCrunch reported this, Evan Williams (founder of Obvious, owners of Twitter) denied this:

    http://twitter.com/ev/statuses/801530348

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