Why did Twitter have so many problems if it is made with Ruby?
19th February 2012
My answer to Why did Twitter have so many problems if it is made with Ruby? on Quora
The technical problem Twitter solves (distributing millions of short messages per minute to an enormous graph of follow relationships) is extremely hard in any language.
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