I was reading thru my feeds and found this post from Obie Fernandez, responding to either a blog posting or a mailing list message from someone here at work. I'm really not sure who wrote the original message but they are wrong on the main argument in the post, that the engineers have decided Rails can't scale.
Being one of those engineers, I figured I should respond on some level. Yes, we are definitely using Rails to prototype new ideas and more than likely we'll rebuild them in Java but that isn't set in stone. I think the majority of folks on the team would be very interested in launching their Rails code into production. The problem is that I haven't seen any Rails apps which face the level of traffic we would be sending it. Are there any in production having greater than 5 million page views a day? If so, I would love to know about them.
I'm just going to gloss over the last thrust of Obie's message, the part about just firing the Java guys. That's just silly and short-sighted. Doesn't it make sense that if these Java guys are prototyping in Rails that maybe there is more to them than just following whatever Java framework is hot.
Posted by Josh at November 2, 2005 08:37 PM