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> won't scale well

Really?

https://twitter.com/ShopifyEng/status/1465806691543531525

Github is in Rails. I mean, seems like it scales just fine.

It takes a lot more effort and housekeeping in Rails to make it scale well. When Github was built, Rails didn't have many decent alternatives. As of today there are a good number

> It takes a lot more effort and housekeeping in Rails to make it scale well.

It takes increasing the number of pods on your k8s which is how almost all teams deploy nowadays. Bigger amazon bills yes but the devops overhead isn't really larger in Rails,

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