What is preventing Twitter from scaling

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What is preventing Twitter from scaling

Hi, The beauty of fast paced frameworks like Rails is that it allows you to deploy quickly- sometimes that comes with a price of having to find ways to scale later. Twitter seem to still be having problems scaling, even though they have been working on this problem for well over a year.

I was wondering - what is preventing them from scaling properly? Is it rails? Database problems? API complexity? Monkeys in the data center?

Any ideas?

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I remember about this article on Coding Horror.

Although it is a little bit old, it answer to some Twitter scalability questions.

controlbreak 2010-09-09 07:24:45

This is less about the actual problems and more about what they should do. :)

Che Kofif 2010-09-09 09:31:14

But thanks for the link :)

Che Kofif 2010-09-09 09:31:35

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Some discussion here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1852729/hows-the-latest-ruby-on-rails-code

John Topley 2010-09-09 08:04:33

ohh, thanks :) Good read.

Che Kofif 2010-09-09 09:32:55

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