Some of Twitter is still Rails, so it does count. (And I do think they are 
running Rails via jruby.)

But Rails is now only just one piece of the hugely scalable stack that powers 
Twitter. 

-- Patrick


On Aug 25, 2013, at 11:12 PM, Benjamin Yu <[email protected]> wrote:

> not sure if i'd consider twitter to be a rails site anymore.
> https://blog.twitter.com/2013/new-tweets-per-second-record-and-how
> 
> "It wasn’t going to be easy to get our performance, reliability, and 
> efficiency goals out of the Ruby VM, so we embarked on writing code to be run 
> on the JVM instead" (not sure if this means jruby in jvm, but my guess is 
> not).
> 
> evident with a lot of their opensourced projects. eg. finagle, cascading, etc.
> 
> On Thursday, August 22, 2013 3:56:16 PM UTC-7, Chris McCann wrote:
>> 
>> In case anyone's wondering, here's a list of the top 10 web sites built with 
>> Ruby on Rails.  I've not vetted this info, just relaying it:
>> 
>> http://blog.netguru.co/post/58995145341/top-10-sites-built-with-ruby-on-rails
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Chris
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