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Discussion on: My First 12 hours with Ruby

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David J Eddy
  • Very valid point in regards to frameworks. However I would argue that medium to large apps performance is more of a concern than for small / meds. Larger the applicaiton the slower they tend to operate. At lteat in my experience. LArger the app, the more people and effort hours have done into to the logic the more 'quick fixes' and cluges to 'get it to work'. Not to mention to geographic distance between processing, database, etc. These leading to more and more slowness.
  • Of course benchmarks are not the only measuring stick. Simply one of many. CDN's, caching, right-sized hardware; many solutions exist. Benchmarking is simply one of many parts of the stick.
  • At you point out, the comparisons are based on familiarity. One of the reasons I want to learn Ruby is to expand the scope of experience.

You also make an interesting point Daniel. The industery is definatly in the grips of a 'big server, little client' trand.