Comment by 12_throw_away
7 hours ago
> The Ruby on Rails tax.
Yeah, from my experience administering a pretty small self-hosted instance, I think it's got to be this. Every single admin action you try to take on the backend is SLOWWWWW. Restarting the services takes a few minutes. Just to bring up an admin console on the server in a CLI takes well over a minute, which indicates a tremendous amount of overhead purely on the ruby side.
There's just something fundamentally slow about how it's all put together. I wouldn't blame the language or tech stack, exactly - but perhaps Ruby on Rails is not a great fit, anymore, for a fully featured forge of this scale?
Foreman is a great piece of software for host configuration management.... except for the fact that it's written in Ruby. It takes like 3sec to load the parameters page, and for that reason, it should never be used.