Thread by @nateberkopec, Also for the "but Rails is more expensive to scale" people: Procore's [...]

Also for the "but Rails is more expensive to scale" people: Procore's IPO filing showed gross margin of _82 god-damned percent_. Shopify's gross margin on their subscription solutions (the Rails monolith) also hovers around 75%. Are you not entertained?!

Actually, I just checked Shopify's 2019 results and they're doing 80% now. Nice!

This all tracks with Basecamp's recent assertion that they're spending about 15% percent of their ops budget on Ruby: https://m.signalvnoise.com/only-15-of-the-basecamp-operations-budget-is-spent-on-ruby/

Only 15% of the Basecamp operations budget is spent on Ruby

We spend about $3 million every year to run all the versions of Basecamp and our legacy applications. That spend is spread across several on-premise data centers and cloud operations. It does not i…

https://m.signalvnoise.com/only-15-of-the-basecamp-operations-budget-is-spent-on-ruby/

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