Github enjoys Rails performance

Topics: Ruby on Rails

Nat Friedman’s report of GitHub processing 2.8 billion API requests daily, with peaks of 55,000 requests per second, illustrates Rails under high load.

Nat Friedman on Twitter:

“GitHub processes 2.8 billion API requests per day, peaking at 55k rps. Lots of busy bots.”

Looks like Ruby on Rails can deliver web-scale performance!