throwawaypyguy

such as scaling to meet needs of multi million users?

yup i agree, look at twitter and then youtube then twitter and then again back at youtube.

who scales?

Its no wonder when DHH and 37 signal espouse no features philosophy, since implementing them is hard and ruby + rails dont help.

You would rarely find any other engineer worth his salt saying that inability to implement a highly requested feature is a virtue and not a failure.

Hmmm, I am some how scared of things that dont reveal their inner working and still let you build on top.

Infact a major reason i feel people seem to love NoSQL is not because they have application specific needs which nosql solutions can cater well, but rather they are too bored to actually learn a useful language/system.

They just want all the "just works" stuff.

This is another reason why ruby seems to be popular with HTML/CSS crowd.