Simon Willison’s Weblog

In the big picture, Twitter did exactly the right thing. They had a good idea and they buckled down and focused on delivering something as cool as possible as fast as possible, and it's really hard, in early 2007, to beat Rails for that. When all of a sudden there were a few tens of thousands of people using it, then they went to work on the scaling.

— Tim Bray

# 14th April 2007, 9:13 am / twitter, tim-bray, rails, scaling

None of these scaling approaches are as fun and easy as developing for Rails. All the convenience methods and syntactical sugar that makes Rails such a pleasure for coders ends up being absolutely punishing, performance-wise.

— Alex Payne, Twitter

# 12th April 2007, 2:51 pm / rails, twitter, scaling