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I'm the primary author, can answer questions if you have any.

• kellysutton 9y ago
  Hi burke! This definitely looks interesting. Boot times for majestic monoliths is a pain that I've experienced many times. How does the fit in with zeus and/or spring? How similar is this to bootscale? (https://github.com/byroot/bootscale https://github.com/byroot/bootscale) Or rails-dev-boost? (https://github.com/thedarkone/rails-dev-boost https://github.com/thedarkone/rails-dev-boost)
  • burke 9y ago
    > How does the fit in with zeus and/or spring? Two orthogonal optimizations: It definitely plays nice with spring, speeding up the pre-fork rather a lot, and the post-fork a little bit. I can't think of any reason it wouldn't also work with zeus, but I haven't tried it. > How similar is this to bootscale? The load-path-caching features are a minor evolution of bootscale. The major difference is that the caching is a little more aggressive in order to be confident enough to return definitive negative results when it thinks a feature is non-present on the load path. I remember using rails-dev-boost years ago, but I can't really remember what it does (EDIT: Should be a similar story to Spring -- complementary optimizations)
    • kellysutton 9y ago
      Cool. Thanks!
• wolco 9y ago
  Curious when did shopify go with Ruby/rails. If I remember when the company was initially started they were looking for php developers. Was the orginal stack built in Ruby/rails?
  • burke 9y ago
    Nope, we've been Rails since before Rails was even public. I'm sure we've hired a PHP developer here and there over the years, but our core platform has always been Ruby.
    • ksec 9y ago
      >Nope, we've been Rails since before Rails was even public. How is that possible? Or you mean Ruby before Rails?
      • burke 9y ago
        Tobi knows DHH; apparently we started building with rails before its public release. Don't quote me on that, but I've heard it in passing a few times.
        • halostatue 9y ago
          Probably before Rails 1.0, certainly. I don’t remember if Tobi was involved in the Ruby community in late 2004 when DHH introduced Rails at RubyConf 2004 (in DC), and I don’t remember him being at that conference, either. But I do remember seeing Tobi involved in ruby-talk by early 2005. But Shopify has always been a Rails shop.
  • girvo 9y ago
    Might be thinking of Etsy, they (are/were?) PHP
• johne20 9y ago
  Nice work Burke! I saw the title, and I immediately thought that has to be Burke. Sure enough... :)
  • burke 9y ago
    Old habits die hard :)
• johne20 9y ago
  Nice work Burke! I saw the title, and I immediately thought that has to be Burke. Sure enough... :)
• daviding 9y ago
  Does it work on a Heroku stack?
  • burke 9y ago
    load path caching should; compilation caching won't, for now at least.
  • trustfundbaby 9y ago
    Doesn't seem to work for me. Deploy fails with massive stacktrace remote: ! Could not detect rake tasks remote: ! ensure you can run `$ bundle exec rake -P` against your app remote: ! and using the production group of your Gemfile. remote: ! rake aborted! remote: ! Errno::ENOSPC: No space left on device