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100% agree - unless you're doing anything especially novel, or know you're getting 10's of millions of connections from day 1, with the ecosystem around it, I w

100% agree - unless you're doing anything especially novel, or know you're getting 10's of millions of connections from day 1, with the ecosystem around it, I wouldn't hesitate choosing Rails + Postgres + Redis + Sidekiq.

ericb 9y ago
Even then. Are you going to be bigger than Shopify on day one?
- swat535 9y ago
  Or.. github.. or gitlab..
  - stuxnet79 9y ago
    Amazing ... are Shopify, Github and Gitlab using a similar stack at their scale? I feel less bad about not using an exotic stack now.
    - nickjj 9y ago
      They are all built with Rails.