Piers Cawley@inthehands the example that springs to mind is Twitter. Twitter got to stupidly large whilst being written in Ruby, back when Ruby's only implementation was a painfully slow tree walking interpreter. They got much bigger, but Ruby and MySQL got them to the point where they mattered.
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