There are two excellent ideas in this posting on ZDnet, aside from the observation that you can scale Ruby on Rails if you avoid hitting the disk farm for static content:
1) Have a team devoted to rapid scalable prototyping. (LinkedIn Light Engineering Development)
2) Use free apps for both proof of concept testing and marketing.
Read and enjoy.
Ruby on Rails: scaling to 1 billion page views per month by ZDNet’s Dennis Howlett — While a lot of attention has been focused on Twitter with questions about whether Ruby on Rails scales, LinkedIn has been quietly running a RoR application on Facebook that is beating down around 1 billion page view per month. Bumpersticker, a relatively trivial Facebook application that allows you to create a cartoon that you can [...]
Best,
Dak
4 responses so far ↓
Chris Schmitt // June 27, 2008 at 9:59 am |
Great article and video. RoR has been criticized for scalability issue mainly due to the Twitter fiasco. This application demonstrates that RoR is not only a great rapid development environment but is just as scalable as the other less friendly web dev tools.
Chris Schmitt // June 27, 2008 at 10:13 am |
Another article on scaling using Rails: http://www.buildingwebapps.com/articles/29-the-rebuilding-and-scaling-of-yellowpages-com
Dak // June 27, 2008 at 1:21 pm |
Thanks, Chris. There’s a LOT of implications in that second article, thanks for sharing it.
Dan Keldsen // April 4, 2009 at 1:35 pm |
Don’t know about you gents, but when I hear someone bellyaching about “it’s not scalable” – they:
a: have no proof
b: are likely never to be so successful as to ever worry about it
c: simply don’t like the proposed solution, for whatever reason, and like throwing out this red herring to see if the project can be derailed (no pun intended, probably) so easily
My buck $3.50…