[Chirb] Rails Scaling Experience?

[Mark Alexander Friedgan]

you know, if you would rather work for a company that uses rails and has
successfully made it scale rather than convince someone that it's a good idea
we're hiring :)

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Troy Denkinger <tdenkinger at gmail.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> I'm right in the midst of advocating for use of Rails on a project I'm
> in the middle of.  I manage a team that has created a service that
> runs on Rails.  To date we've been in development and haven't had any
> serious outside usage, nor have we deployed on production-ready
> hardware.  We are very happy with the ease of development, how
> responsive we can be to the business requirements, and the support
> we've found within the community at large.
>
> Recently we have been asked to merge our service into an existing
> company that has always used a Java stack in their development.  They
> have a couple developers and an operations team that is comfortable
> with Java.  The major concern about using our Rails code is that they
> are concerned with scaling of Rails apps in general, and they are
> using that concern to advocate a port of the existing Rails code to
> their Java stack.
>
> I know one thing that would make the Ops team happy is to talk to
> someone who has actual experience with large-scale Rails deployments.
> I think they're being rightly pragmatic about this, and I'd like to
> find them someone to talk to.  Anyone know anyone who would be willing
> to talk a bit about what they've done to scale a Rails installation?
> I'm sure I could work up some sort of compensation for someone with
> relevant experience who'd like to share it.
>
> Regards,
>
> Troy
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