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Re:Moving my serverless project to Ruby on Rails by nitrogen on Sunday November 15, 2020 @11:35AM (#25102417)
Rails handled Black Friday and Cyber Monday traffic for an ecommerce company I used to work for just fine. If you are making money, it's worth the cost of 50 lowend VPSes autoscaled (we could have done with a lot less, too).

If we were using Java it would have taken us three times the people and four times as long to build the site, and we all would have been laid off.

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Re:Moving my serverless project to Ruby on Rails by FpUser on Sunday November 15, 2020 @02:47PM (#25104131)
For rare events this concept works fine. For large sustained loads using more language/runtime could save a fortune.
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Re:Moving my serverless project to Ruby on Rails by erikrothoff on Monday November 16, 2020 @03:55AM (#25109590)
Do you have a real world example? For example, what are you spending on a single app server? And how many RPS should it handle?
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Re:Moving my serverless project to Ruby on Rails by marsdepinski on Sunday November 15, 2020 @01:34PM (#25103474)
Not if you hired better people.
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Re:Moving my serverless project to Ruby on Rails by rualca on Sunday November 15, 2020 @01:05PM (#25103246)
> Rails handled Black Friday and Cyber Monday traffic for an ecommerce company I used to work for just fine.

That says nothing about the added cost of running inefficient services, which require additional nodes to serve the same requests and thus increase operational cost and also risk to perform the same service.

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