New Tweets per second record, and how

Why is this much more interesting story isn't being discussed and not on front page?

1. Wasn&#x27;t the Castle in the Sky tweet record from last year? Edit: It turns out its the same film making records this year again.<p>2. I remembered the China WeiBo has a way higher TPS record then Twitter. I wonder what there stack are.<p>Now, 200-300 RPS were pretty low on RoR. But even with modern Ruby, reactive or event based, latest optimization and workaround etc. I dont think it can even scale to what they have achieved with JVM.

Twitter seems to really rag on rails but at the end the graph looked pretty good to me for their old architecture at the 95th percentile given their traffic.<p>Most sites won&#x27;t even get 200 reqs per second total, and it&#x27;s great to know that rails can pump that out on a single machine for a non-trivial app.<p>200 * 60 = 12,000 reqs per minute<p>12,000 * 60 = 720,000 reqs per hour<p>720,000 * 24 = 17,280,000 per day

aka &quot;An Inside Look At Re-architecting Twitter&quot;