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How interesting would it be to read the article about the company that looked at doing the big, dramatic rewrite, but didn’t, and was successful? This has happ
by bradgessler 8y ago
How interesting would it be to read the article about the company that looked at doing the big, dramatic rewrite, but didn’t, and was successful?
This has happened at my company with a service called Firehose, which is basically PubSub over WS and HTTP written in Ruby Event Machine. It’s unstylish for a lot of technical reasons and an eng even tried to rewrite it in Elixir. We ended up scraping the rewrite project because the Ruby code just works and rarely gives us any problems in production.
The problem with that story though is it won’t attract engineers who like new shiny stuff.
- methyl 8y ago> eng even tried to rewrite it in Elixir. We ended up scraping the rewrite project because the Ruby code just works and rarely gives us any problems in production. If your Ruby code just worked, why did you try to rewrite it in Elixir?