> Because by choosing RoR you are making an assertion up front: our startup will never scale beyond X users (because you're never going to get buy-in for a rewrite).
How can this be true when we know that Shopify, Gitlab, Github and all others are using RoR.
Here is a more concrete scale[1]:
> We served 75.98 Million requests per minute to our commerce platform at peak. That’s 1.27 Million requests per second!
Is that a bit enough limit for you?
Here is more:
> We achieved 99.999+% uptime while averaging 3 Terabytes per minute of egress traffic across our infrastructure [2]
I disagree with:
> Because by choosing RoR you are making an assertion up front: our startup will never scale beyond X users (because you're never going to get buy-in for a rewrite).
How can this be true when we know that Shopify, Gitlab, Github and all others are using RoR.
Here is a more concrete scale[1]:
> We served 75.98 Million requests per minute to our commerce platform at peak. That’s 1.27 Million requests per second!
Is that a bit enough limit for you?
Here is more:
> We achieved 99.999+% uptime while averaging 3 Terabytes per minute of egress traffic across our infrastructure [2]
[1] https://twitter.com/shopifyeng/status/1597983926126977024
[2] https://twitter.com/shopifyeng/status/1597983918900510720