I wish I could give you a 1000 up-votes for this. I'm so sick of hearing the rhetoric about language X not being able to scale.
Repeat after me, if your app doesn't scale it is YOUR fault, not a language, platform or framework. Scalability is about design and implementation, not what tools you use.
Repeat after me, if your app doesn't scale it is YOUR fault, not a language, platform or framework. Scalability is about design and implementation, not what tools you use.