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I agree about making an informed choice.

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



The assertion that the startup will achieve this scale is the main pitfall here imo, the chance is less than 0.01%.

By the time you reach this problem, you'll have an army of developers to take care of this.




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