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I really don't see any reason to move from Rails other than a new CTO trying to shake things up with a tech he's more familiar with. If Shopify/Github/Gitlab/ c
by joelbluminator 5y ago
I really don't see any reason to move from Rails other than a new CTO trying to shake things up with a tech he's more familiar with.
If Shopify/Github/Gitlab/ can build it on Rails so can you. If the monolith is too big you can break it down with engines or to separate apps.
Now I like Rails but I would say the same about PHP/Node or most popular stacks. Rewrites to another language are almost always unnecessary.
- 29athrowaway 5y agoFor many years Github ran on a fork of Ruby and a fork of Rails. Recently they upgraded to Ruby 2.7 and that's what they use now. https://github.blog/2020-08-25-upgrading-github-to-ruby-2-7/ https://github.blog/2020-08-25-upgrading-github-to-ruby-2-7/
- joelbluminator 5y agoIt says right in your link "Many years ago, we ran GitHub on a fork of Ruby (and Rails!) and while that hasn’t been the case for some time". So that was a long time ago, what is your point?