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> > Yeah you're right. The main thing to do I think is set expectations > appropriately. e.g. for a so-and-so spec'ed machine, you can expect > x authentications per/second and y IO operations per second > simultaneously. > > Problem is, I have no idea what x and y are :-). > > -- Yes ,Jeremy, io is the thing people should think about most and forget about.

I''m curious -- how many of us came to Rails from other branches of the OO world -- Java, C# -- and how many of us came from the design or non-OO scripting worlds? Reason I ask is that I''m finding Rails a blast and very productive, but I think one reason is that I already cut my teeth on MVC and ORM during two years of writing apps with J2EE/Struts/Hibernate. And in Javaland, it