On: Evan Williams: Twitter not abandoning Rails

[drubio]

Yep, got a 500 error to! I thought the post was a joke...reloaded and realized it wasn't, got a clean page.

If you reload the page 3-5 times in a few seconds, you get the 500 error page. Now those are serious scaling issues!

[michaelneale → drubio]

Afraid so. Rails got them to market, if they have to port to whatever, they should do it and I don't see why that is a big deal for anyone. I still like rails even if it can't scale to twitter.

[joshwa → drubio]

They lost a DB server:

http://twitter.com/twitter_status

[michaelneale → drubio]

WOW - you are right. I am seeing that right now. Thats terrible. They could do a server too busy message and it would be more correct I think.