Probably common, but they seem to have asked for it. 3 years ago, they published a presentation on slideshare [1] where they explained they were migrating from

Probably common, but they seem to have asked for it. 3 years ago, they published a presentation on slideshare [1] where they explained they were migrating from a monolith to microservices. That could make sense for them, given their size, but they explained as well that "rails is for pet blogs" (in the content of the presentation) and that they will take the opportunity to use many different languages. As I mentioned in comments back then, this was due to cause problems (although, I did not imagine it would go as far as people rewriting others apps). [1] https://www.slideshare.net/pcalcado/from-a-monolithic-ruby-on-rails-app-to-the-jvm https://www.slideshare.net/pcalcado/from-a-monolithic-ruby-o...