Shanti’s Dispatches

I’m guessing this will not be enough. Penny Arcade is now on Rails.

Along with the slick new visuals the guts of the site also got a huge upgrade. Penny Arcade right now represents one of the largest implementations of “rails” on the intertron. I went and looked at a website about rails and then I got a headache. From what I gathered it’s either some kind of cutting edge programming language, or a way to liquefy a man’s brain inside his skull. I’m told that it means the site looks better and loads faster regardless of whatever hippy web browser you decide to use. Fuck M$!

Penny Arcade is in the Alexa Top 5,000 most visited websites.

For some of the RoR critics, it will take an Alexa top 100 eCommerce site like eBay or Amazon to start using Rails. Sorry, folks, chances are you are not getting into the Alexa Top 100 as an eCommerce play anytime soon. (Can we say … premature optimization?)

Scoble and Co. on Rails

Some of the comments in this Scoble thread were rather amusing as well.

Some commenters seem to think that there’s another way to scale web applications besides throwing cheap (~$500 - $1,000) boxes at a three-tier system (web, app and db servers).

This is how Google runs their entire server farm. I guess Google “doesn’t scale.”

But, yes, actually there is another way. You can always throw $10,000 MS or Sun boxes at a three-tier J2EE or .Net system.

Note: this post ended up sounding a little harsh but that’s only intended for the naysayers.

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