Comments on: Ruby Is Slow, and Rails Doesn’t Scale Well http://dmiessler.com/blog/ruby-is-slow-and-rails-doesnt-scale-well in search of intervals Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:42:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-RC1 hourly 1 By: warren http://dmiessler.com/blog/ruby-is-slow-and-rails-doesnt-scale-well/comment-page-1#comment-48358 warren Tue, 17 Apr 2007 07:32:13 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/archives/1284#comment-48358 <p>I'm not discouraged either... if I could get to 11,000 reqs/sec across 4 quad-core servers, i'd be ecstatic to be honest!</p> <p>The other thing people seem to conveniently overlook is that twitter is fairly heavy on the DB inserts, so it's not as though caching can do a lot to help there, although they are still caching the hell out of whatever they can.</p> I’m not discouraged either… if I could get to 11,000 reqs/sec across 4 quad-core servers, i’d be ecstatic to be honest!

The other thing people seem to conveniently overlook is that twitter is fairly heavy on the DB inserts, so it’s not as though caching can do a lot to help there, although they are still caching the hell out of whatever they can.

]]> By: Jason Ormes http://dmiessler.com/blog/ruby-is-slow-and-rails-doesnt-scale-well/comment-page-1#comment-48135 Jason Ormes Mon, 16 Apr 2007 02:15:39 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/archives/1284#comment-48135 <p>http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000610.html</p> <p>it seems that the rails community has put up a possible fix for twitters problem.</p> http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000610.html

it seems that the rails community has put up a possible fix for twitters problem.

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