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by gls2ro 933 days ago
You seem to imply that you know better than the CEO if Rails is a good fit both from product and cost perspective. Unless you are the CFO or have inside information I will be skeptical of the idea that I - an outsider of Shopify - would know better than them what would works best for them in terms of tech stack and costs savings.

Even if I would be a consultant for them I will first try to understand the current situation and then imply a native image will have half the total cost is a good solution. What if reducing the hosting costs will actually damage their speed of pivoting and adapting to changes?

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The ability to scale is independent from the cost to build / change that thing.