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GitHubCompany
Code hosting and collaboration platform
liked

There are real tangible benefits to running the latest version of Rails

GitHub on why it runs the latest Rails every week

github.blog ↗·2023-04-06Wrong?

GitLabCompany
DevOps platform and open-source code collaboration company
recommended

A modular monolith is the exact opposite of a distributed ball of mud: a well-structured, well-architected, highly modular program that runs as a single process and is as boring as possible.

Why GitLab sticks with Ruby on Rails

about.gitlab.com ↗·2022-07-06Wrong?

ShopifyCompany
Commerce platform for online and retail businesses
uses

Our team focuses on making sure that Ruby as well as Ruby on Rails, central to the infrastructure behind all Shopify stores and much of the modern web, run as smoothly and efficiently as possible.

Shopify's Ruby and Rails infrastructure team on what powers all Shopify stores

shopify.engineering ↗·2023-01-17Wrong?

TwitchCompany
Live-streaming platform, owned by Amazon.
uses

It was built as a monolith using Ruby on Rails.

Twitch on its original Rails monolith that it later broke up

blog.twitch.tv ↗·2022-03-30Wrong?

CoinbaseCompany
Cryptocurrency exchange and platform
uses

Coinbase was launched 8 years ago as a Ruby on Rails app using MongoDB as its primary data store. Today, the primary paved-road language at Coinbase is Golang, but we continue to run and maintain the original Rails monolith, deployed at large scale with data stored across many MongoDB clusters.

Coinbase still runs its original Rails monolith at scale

coinbase.com ↗·2020-06-18Wrong?

SoundCloudCompany
Audio streaming and sharing platform; its Backstage blog covers its engineering.
mixed

In the first two parts of this series, we talked about how SoundCloud started breaking away from a monolithic Ruby on Rails application into a microservices architecture.

SoundCloud breaking its Rails monolith into microservices

developers.soundcloud.com ↗·2014-06-13Wrong?

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