# Re: Real World Scalability and Ruby - Top 20

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-real-world-scalability-and-ruby-top-20/68247>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [September 11, 2006, 4:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-real-world-scalability-and-ruby-top-20/68247 "2006-09-11T04:44:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![bodikp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@bodikp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bodikp)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2006, 4:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-real-world-scalability-and-ruby-top-20/68247/1 "2006-09-11T04:44:05Z")

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The story I heard second hand was “in-house developed C application  
server  
backed by sh1tloads of Java”

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**Author:** ![bodikp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@bodikp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bodikp)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2006, 7:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-real-world-scalability-and-ruby-top-20/68247/2 "2006-09-11T07:09:14Z")

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On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 11:43:28AM +0900, Peter B. wrote:

> The story I heard second hand was “in-house developed C application server  
> backed by sh1tloads of Java”

. . . plus Perl/Mason. Lots of it.