Listening to: Don’t Believe Anymore - Icehouse

I have been watching the Twitter stoosh that has been dominating the Rails community over the past week. It has been interesting to watch the personalities at play and the various arguments be put forward. My take is very similar to:

In the big picture, Twitter did exactly the right thing. They had a good idea and they buckled down and focused on delivering something as cool as possible as fast as possible, and it’s really hard, in early 2007, to beat Rails for that. When all of a sudden there were a few tens of thousands of people using it, then they went to work on the scaling.

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