Why people think it can be related to Rails when there are tons of companies out...

jasode · 2024-01-09T14:51:41 1704811901

>Why people think it can be related to Rails

Probably because there have been more high-profile stories of companies migrating off of Ruby on Rails to something else (e.g. Java, Go, etc) rather than vice-versa of migrating into it.

E.g. the high-profile story of Twitter's previous "whale fail" scaling problems supposedly being partially solved by switching from Ruby to Java/Scala/JVM : https://www.google.com/search?q=twitter+whale+fail+ruby+rail...

Ruby may be unfairly blamed but nevertheless, the narrative is already out there even though other big sites like Shopify, etc still use it.

dtech · 2024-01-09T14:00:10 1704808810

One difference is that Rails and MySQL on a Github scale is rare, even when taking into account Github scale is rare.

izietto · 2024-01-09T14:20:18 1704810018

you mean that most of the other popular huge Rails companies (GitLab, Shopify) use PostgreSQL? Basecamp uses MySQL tho

berkes · 2024-01-09T14:29:58 1704810598

Gitlab is, AFAIK, nowhere near the scale of Github. Shopify IDK, but I'm fairly certain their type of usage is very different. Basecamp is also of another scale, and certainly a very different usage/performance type.

evanelias · 2024-01-09T21:58:43 1704837523

Shopify primarily uses MySQL, unless something major has changed recently. They've done a number of conference talks and engineering blog posts about their usage of MySQL, see e.g. https://www.google.com/search?q=mysql+site%3Ashopify.enginee...