Interview with Twitter developer Alex Payne

Narnach posted a link to www.radicalbehavior.com and tagged it with twitter, rails, performance, scaling

A 5 question interview with Alex Payne about performance bottlenecks and scaling of Twitter, the largest Rails-powered website of this moment.\r\n\r\nThey handle up to 11k requests per second over 16 server cores. They have reached the point where the Database is becoming the bottleneck.