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by evv 4385 days ago
Load testing as a service- thats a brilliant idea!

But why tie yourself to Ruby? (My initial impression is "gross!", but I can't say I'm much of a language purist as I spend most of my time in JS)

Would services like Stripe, Mailgun and Twilio have succeeded if they had forced their customers to use a Ruby DSL?

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I saw basti's talk on stormforger at last month's interactive cologne – and I think he switched to JavaScript for the test definitions. Maybe the website is a bit outdated. :)
Indeed, the DSL is now in JavaScript.
Heroku started with just Rails. It's better to start with one language and do it well and then expand than half-ass it with everything from JS to Erlang imo. The important part is the quality of the service and the information it provides, not the DSL.