Part of the problem is that any typical Web Application framework is ill suited to building a full real time system like Twitter.
I doubt their story would have been much rosier if had they gone with Spring MVC, Hibernate, and Oracle from the start.
The minute you start moving away from CRUD based application design and moving into SOA, you're already signing up for a significant rewrite, even if you stick with the same platform.
I doubt their story would have been much rosier if had they gone with Spring MVC, Hibernate, and Oracle from the start.
The minute you start moving away from CRUD based application design and moving into SOA, you're already signing up for a significant rewrite, even if you stick with the same platform.