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1. gringo+Hw[view] [source] 2018-05-24 23:32:23
>>evanwe+(OP)
This isn't shocking - Twitter was notorious for being held together with Scotch tape technically.

Honestly this hands-on approach is an impressive example of doing things that don't scale.

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2. gianca+1x[view] [source] 2018-05-24 23:38:58
>>gringo+Hw
I found it amusing that Twitter was Rails' biggest advertisement. Everyone wanted to use Rails but Twitter turned into a franken app with different stacks to keep it running
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3. phaedr+ay[view] [source] 2018-05-24 23:51:53
>>gianca+1x
Twitter was Rails' worst advertisement. They used Rails as a scapegoat to hide their bad tech. I still hear things like "Rails can't scale; remember Twitter?"
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4. joerin+sy[view] [source] 2018-05-24 23:55:23
>>phaedr+ay
At least 3 large companies I know my friends developers work at, over the last 5 years switched from Rails to PHP. All told me same story "after twitter, noone wants to work or touch rails anymore"
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5. dasil0+3P[view] [source] 2018-05-25 04:17:54
>>joerin+sy
What will they do when they find out phpBB and WordPress are written in PHP?
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