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		vladgur on Oct 11, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Airbnb Scaled by Moving Away from a Rails Mono... It seems that the Ruby on Rails monolith lasted through 10 years of explosive growth at airbnb. Thats a pretty scalable to me. FTA it sounds that it wasnt he language of framework that was an issue, but rather the monolith model.

yftsui on Oct 11, 2023 [–]

Well, you have to put the human cost investment into the picture. When the cost to develop/maintain becomes significantly high, it’s a natural choice to deprecate it and move on to something faster.

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