[vladgur]

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]

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.