On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 10:40:04PM +0900, Ruby Maniac wrote:
> 
> Ruby scales just fine as long as you are willing to throw a ton of
> compute hardware at it !
> 
> I believe Twitter is successfully using Ruby for their site but then
> they have also invested in a ton of servers dedicated to running
> hundreds of Mongrels.
> 
> So yeah, get out your checkbooks and write more checks for more
> servers and sure Ruby scales just fine !

Assuming about an 80k salary and a 2,000 dollar server, a server is worth
about 50 hours of programmer time.

I just figured I'd provide a simple starting place for comparing the cost
of software development with that of hardware upgrades.

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