Shopify now on Rails 5.0. started 12 years ago on 0.5, the First version released

Re:Shopify now on Rails 5.0. started 12 years ago on 0.5, th... by ksec on Friday January 20, 2017 @09:56PM (#13448504)

It seems Cookpad's claim of largest Rails Monolith may not be true anymore. (1) But I have known this for sometime when I heard China' Rails Ticketing System were built on Rails, then I assume peak traffic would be larger then Google + Twitter + Amazon Combined. Although they have moved off the Rails due to scaling issues.

I wonder if Shopify have any Ruby performance or Rails Scaling issues to share?

And the last thing is Rails just prove to be popular and works well for ( and may be only ) paid SaaS. It allows you to quickly iterate your product until you find a product / market fit. And once you have generate a revenue stream, the Server / Software Scaling Cost becomes relatively minor compared to Human Cost. But for those who are on a freeminum model and depends on Ads, Cost of running Ruby Rails may quickly out pace your budget before you have large audience to generate revenue.

1. https://speakerdeck.com/a_matsuda/the-recipe-for-the-worlds-...

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Re:Shopify now on Rails 5.0. started 12 years ago on 0.5, th... by nateberkopec on Friday January 20, 2017 @10:31PM (#13448598)

Somewhat of a tangent - are there any huge Ruby apps that are not Rails monoliths? All of the big Ruby apps are big Rails monoliths - Cookpad, Github, Shopify. Of course they probably have some services, but you wouldn't call them a "microservices" architecture by any means.

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Re:Shopify now on Rails 5.0. started 12 years ago on 0.5, th... by hopsoft on Friday January 20, 2017 @11:10PM (#13448726)

Sounds like Stripe may be a large service oriented system written in Ruby but not Rails. https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Stripe-choose-to-use-Ruby-for-...

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Re:Shopify now on Rails 5.0. started 12 years ago on 0.5, th... by dvdhnt on Saturday January 21, 2017 @12:01AM (#13448910)

Interesting that the bulk of their web interface was written in CoffeeScript at the time of the answer even though they weren't using Rails. I've just never seen a well-known product using CoffeeScript without Rails.

I do wonder if that remains to be the case or if they've moved their web interface to something else. They've released a number of new products the past year, and I'm sure at least one isn't CoffeeScript given the content of the post.

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Re:Shopify now on Rails 5.0. started 12 years ago on 0.5, th... by malyk on Saturday January 21, 2017 @02:06AM (#13449215)

I believe Stripe is Sinatra with a custom rolled ORM. Seem to remember one of the founders posting that...maybe even here on HN.

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Re:Shopify now on Rails 5.0. started 12 years ago on 0.5, th... by gnufied on Saturday January 21, 2017 @12:30AM (#13448975)

Not really an app in typical sense but Heroku is mostly Sinatra afaik.

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