Re:Ruby on Rails Audit Complete
by vidarh on Sunday June 15, 2025 @03:57PM
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Twitter also would've scaled a lot further on Rails just by dismantling the monolith. I don'tike Rails (though I love Ruby), but the way Rails was scapegoated for an original architecture that was not suited for scale irrespective of framework or language was annoying.
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Yep totally agree. And also realistically once we hit that kind of scale it was perfectly reasonably to start looking at other options as well.
It's been a while but I think we were at like 250mm MAUs when we finally decided to break up the rails monolith (and I think it was still on Rails 3 at the time, but don't quote me on that). The number of companies that ever hit that kind of scale approaches zero, and even less in the B2B space.