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I did my research. My research indicated that Twitch got set up in Rails, and first transitioned their chat client out of Ruby land. I was not able to determin

I did my research. My research indicated that Twitch got set up in Rails, and first transitioned their chat client out of Ruby land. I was not able to determine when Twitch began doing this, but seeing as their first major growth spurt was on launch, seems unlikely it was before they had to scale Rails to a substantial degree. I was also not able to determine what else they've switched over. Old news is still relevant information, particularly when that news is "went from zero to ~10m on tech X".

hu3 9y ago
http://engineering.twitch.tv/ http://engineering.twitch.tv/ says: "Powered by Go" with zero mentions of Ruby. Saying twitch "is in Rails" in 2017 is disingenuous to say the least.
- RangerScience 9y ago
  Interesting. I don't know how I missed that page. I'll update my statements and opinions (and slides).... ...but Twitch still uses Ruby[1], and was still originally in Rails. It still stands as an example of scaling Rails, even if it no longer uses it. [1] https://jobs.lever.co/twitch/c795ef2d-2621-4383-8aa1-c85c8750bfa2 https://jobs.lever.co/twitch/c795ef2d-2621-4383-8aa1-c85c875...