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by chris12321 981 days ago
DDH made a funny comment about this in his keynote for the Rails World conference that just happened:

"Twitter moved off rails and I was always really curious about that story. Here's a testimony from someone who actually worked at Twitter when they moved off. Yeah they moved off because they had a badly designed Rails app, that happens. Okay and then they moved into what they thought was better a constellation of java microservices and then nothing fucking happened for 10 years. They poured concrete over the application and hired thousands of people to make no progress at all."

You can watch the whole talk here, the quote starts around the 15 min mark:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqXjGiQ_D-A