Comments on: Twitter is giving Rails a bad name http://www.tonyspencer.com/2008/06/05/twitter-is-giving-rails-a-bad-name/ It's Just Links Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:47:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: tony http://www.tonyspencer.com/2008/06/05/twitter-is-giving-rails-a-bad-name/comment-page-1/#comment-91631 tony Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:30:22 +0000 http://www.tonyspencer.com/2008/06/05/twitter-is-giving-rails-a-bad-name/#comment-91631 Rails is very fast by default in my experience even under moderate high load but if you need to get killer performance you simply break out of ActiveRecord and use plain SQL and turn on caching. In Twitter's case they have extreme activity on a simple app. I'd load balance, memcached, and if that didn't work slap C in front of it. Rails is very fast by default in my experience even under moderate high load but if you need to get killer performance you simply break out of ActiveRecord and use plain SQL and turn on caching.

In Twitter’s case they have extreme activity on a simple app. I’d load balance, memcached, and if that didn’t work slap C in front of it.

]]> By: Russ http://www.tonyspencer.com/2008/06/05/twitter-is-giving-rails-a-bad-name/comment-page-1/#comment-91322 Russ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:56:28 +0000 http://www.tonyspencer.com/2008/06/05/twitter-is-giving-rails-a-bad-name/#comment-91322 You sure it's not the other way around? Did you see this? http://www.avnetlabs.com/php/php-framework-comparison-benchmarks Check out CodeIgniter's benchmarks at the very bottom when using various ORM / code cache. You sure it’s not the other way around? Did you see this? http://www.avnetlabs.com/php/php-framework-comparison-benchmarks

Check out CodeIgniter’s benchmarks at the very bottom when using various ORM / code cache.

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