Comments on: Evaluating Ruby http://www.digitalhobbit.com/archives/2005/09/17/evaluating-ruby/ Thoughts from the hobbit hole Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:17:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: DigitalHobbit http://www.digitalhobbit.com/archives/2005/09/17/evaluating-ruby/#comment-891 DigitalHobbit Sun, 18 Sep 2005 05:46:52 +0000 http://www.digitalhobbit.com/?p=168#comment-891 Yes, same here. :) I agree that in most cases it is probably worth spending a bit more money to get more or better CPUs if it saves development (and maintenance) costs. On the other hand I suppose that there are examples of high profile sites (Amazon, Google, or Yahoo come to mind) that need to be highly optimized. In these cases I am sure every bit of optimization counts, and buying a few thousand extra servers is probably prohibitive... But for most enterprise applications, where a little bit of linear overhead won't have a huge affect on the scalability of the application, I am sure the benefits of using Ruby would be well worth it. Yes, same here. :)

I agree that in most cases it is probably worth spending a bit more money to get more or better CPUs if it saves development (and maintenance) costs. On the other hand I suppose that there are examples of high profile sites (Amazon, Google, or Yahoo come to mind) that need to be highly optimized. In these cases I am sure every bit of optimization counts, and buying a few thousand extra servers is probably prohibitive… But for most enterprise applications, where a little bit of linear overhead won’t have a huge affect on the scalability of the application, I am sure the benefits of using Ruby would be well worth it.

]]> By: Aníbal Rojas http://www.digitalhobbit.com/archives/2005/09/17/evaluating-ruby/#comment-890 Aníbal Rojas Sun, 18 Sep 2005 02:50:59 +0000 http://www.digitalhobbit.com/?p=168#comment-890 The main point is that CPU is always going cheaper, good developers are expensive. I am just starting the process of learning Ruby and Rails after a LOT of years of J2EE development, and I am loving it. The main point is that CPU is always going cheaper, good developers are expensive. I am just starting the process of learning Ruby and Rails after a LOT of years of J2EE development, and I am loving it.

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