1.5 million served – who says Rails doesn’t scale?
May 25th, 2007 by Robert Dempsey - Tags: Ruby on Rails
Rails For All posted a case study today on CourseAdvisor, an online directory of post-secondary schools and education programs, written in Ruby on Rails, that currently serves 1.5 million users per month. Read the case study at Rails For All.
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While I believe Rails is perfectly capable of scaling, 1.5 million users in a month is not an example of scalability in any sense of the word!
scaling has to do with an architecture providing a linear cost path to handle more concurrent users. not overall volume…
Jerret,
Thank you for your comment, and for helping me to clarify. 1.5 million is more a measurement of traffic handling than scalability. The scalability comes in with the fact that CourseAdvisor went from handling 1M to 1.5M users per month, and are experiencing continued growth. From the interview with CourseAdvisor, they are using some interesting techniques to handle the traffic growth. Thanks again for helping me to clarify.