UK Government backend stack is usually ruby/rails. One of the main reasons was ease/speed of development which makes a lot of sense given public funds. Another is that they picked this stack a little while ago.. so it's hard to move onto different stacks without causing whoever needs to support it in future a bit of heartache since most are ruby engineers..!
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UK Government backend stack is usually ruby/rails. One of the main reasons was ease/speed of development which makes a lot of sense given public funds. Another is that they picked this stack a little while ago.. so it's hard to move onto different stacks without causing whoever needs to support it in future a bit of heartache since most are ruby engineers..!
Wow, didn't know that. Thank you.