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Any idea how many people use Hey.com? That might be an early indication as to how scalable this is (at least for hotwire's concerns)
by BryanBeshore 6y ago
Any idea how many people use Hey.com? That might be an early indication as to how scalable this is (at least for hotwire's concerns)
- simonw 6y agoGitHub scales just fine on their own variant of Turbolinks.
- BryanBeshore 6y agoAgreed. My comment about scaling is simply that a lot of other companies use rails at scale, and alike that of hey.com (which I presume is heavily used) it is probably built to... scale
- ksec 6y agoWell Rails was never not scalable in literal sense. It was just the cost of scaling being expensive; comparatively speaking when people say Rails not able to scale. And for most if not all SaaS that should never be much of a problem. Because you are getting revenue per user, and generally speaking the cost percentage of user / app / server resources is so small, that is a rounding error in grand scheme of things. What doesn't work quite as well is when the app is operating a freemium / ad based model. Where a large volume of traffic are required before you start generating revenue.
- SkyPuncher 6y agoI always find the Rails/scalable thing to be a funny argument - especially on the startup-minded HN. You don't need scale at a startup. You need velocity. If you're hitting scale at a startup, you've done one of two things: * Written absolutely terrible software * Succeeded Unless you've hit the second one, it will almost always be cheaper to simply spin up another server.
- EdwinLarkin 6y agoCould be because a lot of startups are just trying to squeeze just as much traffic as they can with very little capital involved. It's basically here's my app that does billions of things and wants billions of users and runs on potato thing.