Notice that I haven’t been writing much anymore? Want to know why? Doesn’t matter cause I’m going to tell you anyway. Over the past few weeks I’ve made a concerted effort to use Twitter as much as possible in order to figure out wtf the fuss is all about. That said, I still don’t know the answer other than it’s kinda cool to have a list of “followers” who actually end up reading my 140 character blasts of nonsense.
What I have learned from numerous blog posts about Twitter is that according to anonymous blog-comment experts “Rail doesn’t scale.” I also learned from those same posts that there are thousands and thousands of developers and “software architects” who know everything there is to know about scaling database driven web applications with complex messaging and frequent user interaction. This second point was a revelation to me because I didn’t think there were anywhere near that many experts on scaling on the Web. I mean it really makes me wonder why all these tech companies big and small have such a hard time finding qualified devs, or why companies like Facebook, Google (yes even Google), MySpace, Amazon, and Apple have difficult times keeping their sites up and performing all the time. Next time I go searching for an expert developer, I’m going right to Techcrunch’s comments.
Note: I listed those particular companies because I’ve personally seen errors on sites run by all of them more than once.
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