[Ruby] Scalability tests

[Ryan Davis]

On Mar 19, 2007, at 14:31 , ben wiseley wrote:

> After the last meeting (which was partially about "don't worry about
> scalability") I'm pretty hesitant to bring this up - but we're (

I hope that isn't actually what you took away from my talk.

What I was saying was "worry about complexity and scalability will  
almost always take care of itself".

Remember, even as slow as ruby is, a basic rails app will easily  
handle 0.5-1.0 million hits a day on a relatively boring box. 4m hits  
a day is addressed with better session stores, a bit of caching, and  
a lot of RAM (read: no real architectural changes). I suspect that  
it'd scale to 6m hits a day as well, but I have no evidence for that  
yet.

But... since 99% of the people on this list don't have to worry about  
those numbers, they don't have to worry about those solutions either  
and doing so is pure mentarbation (and a waste of time and money).