Very true. Twitter may have had a lot of scaling trouble, but that didn't necess...

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Very true. Twitter may have had a lot of scaling trouble, but that didn't necessarily mean moving everything onto the JVM was necessary to 'make it scale'. It was just sensible to pick a language that would prevent problems in future.