alt Hacker NewsAlso the fact that its written in Ruby on Rails probably doesn’t make it easier, performance wise.
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t-writescode • yesterday at 3:58 PM
Honestly. They’re already performing miracles with RoR.
How many non Ruby apps and all the databases and systems behind could climb their traffic 14x when they probably only perf-tested for a sustained 2-3x and, and paid for a profitable amount of rack space rather than a “lol, VC money, we’ll 10x later” amount of infra.
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Crusoe123 • today at 9:19 PM
Suddenly after 18 years, Ruby on Rails is the issue?
Tell that to Shopify that handles 8.15 million requests per second and processes $5.1M USD per minute in sales during Black Friday. You scale your architecture, not your programming language.