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Discussion on: Pitch me on the pros and cons of your preferred web app framework

 
darkwiiplayer profile image
𒎏Wii 🏳️‍⚧️

embrace what Rails is and isn't and build a "majestic monolith"

I think the back-end community just needs to get over monolith-shaming. There's nothing wrong with having one big app where all the parts perfectly fit together.

What's the point of losing the performance benefit of not having countless abstraction layers between your application's components, when you don't really need any of the benefits?

"Know what you're making" is really the one and only answer to so many of these A vs. B discussions.

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codewander profile image
codewander

I agree with allowing for some monoliths, but I also think rails API needs to advertise stronger as a potential microservice option. It's sad to see everybody choose flask or express. I imagine some percentage of those devs would actually enjoy convention over config, if they considered it a viable option.