Re:Why We’re Sticking with Ruby on Rails at Gitlab
by ElectricalUnion on Monday June 13, 2022 @12:54PM
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> Like all the banks and governments forking over loads of cash for COBOL and Coldfusion consultants because the refused to modernize.
COBOL itself it's actually very cheap and simple; in fact "so simple anyone can use it because it's just english" /s
What banks and governments fork loads of cash for, it's a highly vertically scalable, performant and redundant system that works (and keeps working) under heavy load and concurrency. A SaaS cloud (including the ludicrous prices you pay for a SaaS when you need to scale your service...) before SaaS clouds were a thing. A mainframe computer with a support contract.
COBOL itself it's actually very cheap and simple; in fact "so simple anyone can use it because it's just english" /s
What banks and governments fork loads of cash for, it's a highly vertically scalable, performant and redundant system that works (and keeps working) under heavy load and concurrency. A SaaS cloud (including the ludicrous prices you pay for a SaaS when you need to scale your service...) before SaaS clouds were a thing. A mainframe computer with a support contract.