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Does Stripe use RoR?

The author mentions the codebase was Ruby, but I didn't see if they talked about Rails.

It is Ruby but not rails

Thanks. I wonder what the experience is like working on a very large codebase with or without a framework. E.g. Stripe vs Shopify.

Or if the framework is barely noticeable at that scale and doesn't really matter anymore. That's the impression I get for Instagram (which was built with Django).

At that scale there's certainly a framework and many in house libraries with opinions and patterns. It's just not rails.

They had their own ORM, and a web framework built on Sinatra. It wasn't as though you needed to reach far for a tool if you needed one

Do they use zeitwerk?

We do, yes.

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