<div dir="ltr"><div>Interestihng essay. BTW I have a 1980 degree in Classical Languages, a near 30-year career in programming doing about everything from writing C under MS-DOS to GIS database work, and I CAN in fact use a soldering iron. The only real limit to your knowledge is the time you're willing to put in.<br><br></div>-- CHS<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Solomon Peachy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pizza@shaftnet.org" target="_blank">pizza@shaftnet.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 04:10:32PM -0400, DJ-Pfulio wrote:<br>
> Performance of Rails doesn't matter for most companies. They just don't<br>
> get the traffic. For internal web-app development I think Ruby and<br>
> rails is extremely productive. A larger, faster server for $10K more is<br>
> cheaper than programming time. I've seen this solution many, many times.<br>
><br>
> If you are FB, Twitter, Google - that matters, but if you are writing an<br>
> internal app for GA-Power employees, it doesn't.<br>
<br>
</span>That reminds me of this essay:<br>
<br>
"Don't use Hadoop -- your data isn't that big"<br>
<br>
<a href="https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/hadoop_hatred.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/hadoop_hatred.html</a><br>
<br>
As much as I dislike the "rails" development paradigm, I can't argue<br>
with its programmer productivity, and it is able to scale higher than<br>
most folks/organizations will ever need.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
- Solomon<br>
--<br>
Solomon Peachy pizza at shaftnet dot org<br>
Delray Beach, FL ^^ (email/xmpp) ^^<br>
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.<br>
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