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RoR wasn't picked up by e-commerce at this scale. Most of the craziness comes from attempting to squeeze out every last inch of performance so that the prospect
by Tade0 1y ago
RoR wasn't picked up by e-commerce at this scale. Most of the craziness comes from attempting to squeeze out every last inch of performance so that the prospective client won't go "neeeih" and shop somewhere else.
A RoR app will just sit comfortably wherever you deploy it, slowly doing its job like a good, reliable tractor.
A typical Next.js app is smeared all across its origin, some geographically convenient Edge and the frontend. It's a very different use case.
- usernamed7 1y agowhat do you mean? Shopify is the largest eCommerce platform and runs rails.
- fredrikholm 1y agoI think they mean that Shopify doesn't decide what happens or doesn't happen to Rails; Vercel decides what happens or doesn't happen to NextJS.
- hit8run 1y agoTobi is Ex-Rails Core contributor and Shopify is significantly contributing to Rails and Ruby.