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Why people think it can be related to Rails when there are tons of companies out there using Rails not affected by this degradation?
by izietto 3y ago
Why people think it can be related to Rails when there are tons of companies out there using Rails not affected by this degradation?
- dtech 3y agoOne difference is that Rails and MySQL on a Github scale is rare, even when taking into account Github scale is rare.
- izietto 3y agoyou mean that most of the other popular huge Rails companies (GitLab, Shopify) use PostgreSQL? Basecamp uses MySQL tho
- berkes 3y agoGitlab is, AFAIK, nowhere near the scale of Github. Shopify IDK, but I'm fairly certain their type of usage is very different. Basecamp is also of another scale, and certainly a very different usage/performance type.
- evanelias 3y agoShopify primarily uses MySQL, unless something major has changed recently. They've done a number of conference talks and engineering blog posts about their usage of MySQL, see e.g. https://www.google.com/search?q=mysql+site%3Ashopify.engineering https://www.google.com/search?q=mysql+site%3Ashopify.enginee...
- jasode 3y ago>Why people think it can be related to Rails Probably because there have been more high-profile stories of companies migrating off of Ruby on Rails to something else (e.g. Java, Go, etc) rather than vice-versa of migrating into it. E.g. the high-profile story of Twitter's previous "whale fail" scaling problems supposedly being partially solved by switching from Ruby to Java/Scala/JVM : https://www.google.com/search?q=twitter+whale+fail+ruby+rails https://www.google.com/search?q=twitter+whale+fail+ruby+rail... Ruby may be unfairly blamed but nevertheless, the narrative is already out there even though other big sites like Shopify, etc still use it.