You can't quote out of context. The article is written by and refers to the Twitter Search Team.
On their job page they are advertising for ruby front end developers https://twitter.com/job.html?jvi=owPbVfwb,Job I have no knowledge of what they do and don't use however. Cheers, Anthony On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Joshua Partogi <jpart...@scrum8.com> wrote: > Right. Because this bit is very vague: > > ..., we launched a replacement for our Ruby-on-Rails front-end: a Java > server we call Blender. > > It sounds like the are replacing the Rails front-end (website?) with > Java server. From your comment it seems front-end here is referring to > the search service. > > Cheers. > > On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Ryan Bigg <radarliste...@gmail.com> wrote: > > No, Ruby on Rails does Twitter just fine. > > What they are doing though is removing it from the parts where it isn't > > getting them the performance they wanted. Ruby on Rails isn't a "golden > > hammer" and shouldn't be used for everything. > > In the post they state they will eliminate Ruby on Rails from the search > > stack entirely, replacing it with Blender. The website's front-end is > still > > done in Ruby on Rails as far as I am aware. > > > > -- > > Ryan Bigg > > > > On Friday, 8 April 2011 at 8:53 PM, Joshua Partogi wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I just read twitter blog entry here: > > > http://engineering.twitter.com/2011/04/twitter-search-is-now-3x-faster_1656.html > > > > From what I can understand, it seems that Twitter is moving away from > > Rails? Is it right? > > > > Thanks > > > > -- > > @jpartogi > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > > To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > > To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > > > > > -- > @jpartogi > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
