Oh yes - Our system ended up being good for several hundred or several thousand (don't recall) transactions per second.

Bob called me after Zuck's announcement that the system hit a peak of (wait for it), 5 transactions per second. And that for only a very short time. The system was mostly only loaded with a transaction every few seconds (or maybe even minutes)

The Ruby version would have been fine. Heck, we probably could have just printed the transactions to some screen and have someone write them down at that speed.

We did have a good laugh though.