From 0 to 1 Million in 6 Hours - Bendyworks: We are Bendyworks

Having an office less than a block away from a protest that’s making international headlines gave us a unique opportunity: use our technology prowess to experience live events in a new way. So what did we do? We wrote a site using Rails, WebSockets, Heroku, MongoDB, and the Twitter Streaming API. In 6 hours. credit: flickr:doomyeti The Pieces We’re using heroku to host the site, although (with a f