Comment by another_twist
17 days ago
Distribution is king. Kudos to Ramp for that. My weird thesis is that for whatever reason Ruby on Rails shops just seem to survive more. I wonder if someone did a stack specific survival rate analysis.
17 days ago
Distribution is king. Kudos to Ramp for that. My weird thesis is that for whatever reason Ruby on Rails shops just seem to survive more. I wonder if someone did a stack specific survival rate analysis.
Pretty sure Ramp uses Elixir.
Ramp is mostly their Python monolith. They have a blog post about their use of Elixir for one service but it's really not their core stack.
Brex was a lot more all-in on Elixir, including being one of the languages "stars," but moved to a more conventional stack (IIRC Java/Drop wizard microservices with Kafka to talk between them).
Ramp is (mostly) a Flask monolith with some sprinkles of Elixir at the very edges where sub-second performance matters.
the Ruby on Rails of Erlang, I guess. Maybe we just generalize the thesis to - the stack must be the ruby on rails of X language.
I'll give that and agree the underlying is a quibble.