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I can use Ruby on Rails but I don't think an RoR app can handle thousands of comments per minute in an optimised way. I run a midsize app in Rails 5 and already

I can use Ruby on Rails but I don't think an RoR app can handle thousands of comments per minute in an optimised way. I run a midsize app in Rails 5 and already having lot of scaling issues. Iirc Reddit stopped open sourcing their code from 2017 and I guess understanding and running that 12 year old spaghetti code wasn't worth it anyway. I don't see anything useful on their github page too https://github.com/reddit https://github.com/reddit

Black101 5y ago
Its not like reddit improved since 2017... they added silver, copper and a sucky new interface but I dont think that helps anyone.
nik736 5y ago
Rails will handle "thousands of comments" just fine. If you are hitting scaling issues with a midsize Rails app you probably could look into how to optimize. Throwing Mongo at the problem is not really a solution.
aprdm 5y ago
GitHub and shopify are written in RoR afaik, many millions of requests go through them just fine