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Infrastructure is cheap. Labor is expensive.
by mathverse 3y ago
Infrastructure is cheap. Labor is expensive.
- mlrtime 3y agoInfra is cheap when you're in hyper build mode. When your growth rate stalls and your expenses are greater than your income, infra gets expensive very quick and will kill your company.
- stevebmark 3y agoI agree labor is expensive, which is why you shouldn't use Rails. Shopify brags it took them only a year to upgrade Rails one major version https://shopify.engineering/upgrading-shopify-to-rails-5-0 https://shopify.engineering/upgrading-shopify-to-rails-5-0
- nithinbekal 3y agoThat's from 6 years ago. Shopify has used Rails' main branch since 2019. https://shopify.engineering/living-on-the-edge-of-rails https://shopify.engineering/living-on-the-edge-of-rails