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Re:Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler ... by echelon on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @04:47PM (#45352544)
Square was originally a single RoR monolith. We spent a decade burning it to the ground with a Java and Go microservice architecture.

Some product surface area remains Ruby, but Ruby was chased away by most teams.

Square brought in a lot of Xooglers over the years to lead the transition, so you see a lot of Google tech: protobufs, gRPCs, at one point a pre-Kubernetes Borg clone, etc.

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