Well, there you have it just another ho-hum year ahead for CIOs expected to imagine and deliver indispensable market intelligence and insight, optimized business processes, unmatched customer engagement and experience, bullet-proof global security across systems of record as well as tens of thousands of handheld devices, social opportunities, and the perfect blend of cloud and on-premise systems that will ensure their companies remain healthy, wealthy, and wise.

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For businesses, this approach means they can design business models and business processes that are optimized for opportunities and growth, rather than being limited by the rigidity of either legacy systems or short-sighted cloud strategies predicated on tactical efficiency rather strategic advantage.

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Where Twitter does use Ruby, it deploys the code on a custom, highly optimized version of the Ruby runtime designed to manage memory more efficiently when executing long-running processes.

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