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by Obie Fernandez.
Original Post: Massive Scalability and Fast Cars
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Feed Description: Obie Fernandez talks about life as a technologist, mostly as ramblings about software development and consulting. Nowadays it's pretty much all about Ruby and Ruby on Rails.
In my opinion, questions like "Can you scale a Rails (or J2EE, or ASP.NET) application to the size of eBay or Amazon?" are kind of dumb. No matter what the underlying technology is, the answer is always: "Yes, but it will take a lot of work."
I'm pretty...
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