Comment by pluc

2 days ago

Microsoft. Azure. AI.

Pick one!

Also the fact that its written in Ruby on Rails probably doesn’t make it easier, performance wise.

  • Honestly. They’re already performing miracles with RoR.

    How many non Ruby apps and all the databases and systems behind could climb their traffic 14x when they probably only perf-tested for a sustained 2-3x and, and paid for a profitable amount of rack space rather than a “lol, VC money, we’ll 10x later” amount of infra.

    • Systems engineers generally don't run performance tests at 2x or any specific scale.

      You load test and see how much it takes until the system falls over - basically you DDoS yourself and see what the numbers were when things broke, and what broke first second so on. Maybe in a sandbox maybe against prod.

      It's very telling that issues began almost to the day of the Microsoft acquisition.

  • Tell that to Shopify that handles 8.15 million requests per second and processes $5.1M USD per minute in sales during Black Friday. You scale your architecture, not your programming language.