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diegoholiveiratoday at 12:12 PM1 replyview on HN

I remember that. It was the first time I heard about Scala.

I saw a lot of RoR companies/users thinking “should we do the same?” without even realizing that they do not have the same twitter scalability problems.


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busterarmtoday at 12:32 PM

It didn't even end there at Twitter.

The same engineer at Twitter decided early on that no distributed messaging technology was good enough for Twitter, so they wrote their own. It fell over and they threw it away and wrote their own again. It fell over and they threw it away and now they use mainstream tools.