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Re:Shopify Ruby on Rails distributed monolith runs 19M queri... by mathverse on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @04:07AM (#38457180)
Infrastructure is cheap. Labor is expensive.
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Re:Shopify Ruby on Rails distributed monolith runs 19M queri... by mlrtime on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @07:59AM (#38458785)
Infra is cheap when you're in hyper build mode. When your growth rate stalls and your expenses are greater than your income, infra gets expensive very quick and will kill your company.
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Re:Shopify Ruby on Rails distributed monolith runs 19M queri... by stevebmark on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @09:34PM (#38468683)
I agree labor is expensive, which is why you shouldn't use Rails. Shopify brags it took them only a year to upgrade Rails one major version https://shopify.engineering/upgrading-shopify-to-rails-5-0
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Re:Shopify Ruby on Rails distributed monolith runs 19M queri... by nithinbekal on Saturday December 02, 2023 @08:25AM (#38498457)
That's from 6 years ago. Shopify has used Rails' main branch since 2019.

https://shopify.engineering/living-on-the-edge-of-rails

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