Twitter to jump off Ruby on Rails
Twitter may soon dump the application framework in favor of Java or PHP, according to TechCrunch.
Twitter has been struggling with scaling issues. The group messaging site’s once-frequent problems with downtime have lessened, but it still experienced a caching problem a week ago that made the service virtually useless for an entire weekend. The company may have decided that if it wants to continue growing — without risking further outages that would hurt said growth — Rails wasn’t going to cut it.
These rumors come little more than a week after Twitter announced the departure of its chief architect Blaine Cook, a big Rails fan.
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