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The Heaven and Hell of Ruby on Rails

Karan Shah on June 17, 2019

Being one of the most mature frameworks, Ruby on Rails is still relevant in 2019. From Freshworks to Cookpad, top brands on the planet rely on it ...
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Rails will scale much further these days than most people think. Make sure your team honestly weighs the trade offs before reaching for something different.

For example, my company runs an ethical ad platform on Rails which helps support open source projects. We currently serve > 2.5 million requests per day with our most critical endpoints averaging < 70 millisecond response times... half of that time being database related I/O.

And... we hope to be able to scale significantly on the Rails stack. 🤞

Feel free to check out the project: github.com/gitcoinco/code_fund_ads/

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Karan Shah

There's tons of demand, I can assure you that. And don't go on just the total number of jobs out there - you will have more airhostess than captains and maybe their openings are more too but does that mean you should pick the former?