Maybe it is because it is easier to talk about all the things you ought to do right, instead of just writing the damn thing. It is also a lot safer for the ego in some way. You can postpone putting your idea out there – because no mather how good an idea it is, someone is bound to be of another oppinion. I will try to not let myself be blinded by all the negative what if’s.

For us, it’s really about scaling horizontally – to that end, Rails and Ruby haven’t been stumbling blocks, compared to any other language or framework. The performance boosts associated with a “faster” language would give us a 10-20% improvement, but thanks to architectural changes that Ruby and Rails happily accommodated, Twitter is 10000% faster than it was in January.

In the near future I will be creating technical proofs of concept (because the design part is not my strong side) of several of my ideas. This way it will be easier to assemble a team, and decide what to actually do.

This way, I will also have something real to write about.