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by pjerem 855 days ago
> Rails is great for a world where an app was running on one server, but that world just isn't there anymore as much as it used to.

No, that’s still a choice you can make. It’s still possible to make your app run on one server with Rails/Django/PHP and to scale it horizontally and vertically very easily. The requirements of a web app / web site barely changed in 10-15 years, the only things that changed is that new ways to do the same things appeared regularly : some were real improvements, most are just hype-driven.

If you need to call external APIs you can still do it on the client if that’s what you want or on the server with task queues / messages queues which are still a good practice anyway and which can be handled by how many servers you want.

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How would you move ChatGPT 4 inside your rails app?