This video is a really interesting look at how LinkedIn's LED (Light Engineering Department) took on the very hard problem of scaling a web application. Despite Twitter's all too visible scaling issues, this seems to demonstrate that Rails is scalable if you do the right things up front.
That said, the the view that dynamic content is a problem seems to present some serious issues for Twitters since just about everything they are distributing is dynamic.
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