[tptacek]

I've had nothing but bad experiences trying to do things I'd ordinarily do in Rails in Golang instead (and I really like Golang). Writing "Rails apps" in Golang feels a like like writing them in Sinatra used to feel: good at first, but halfway through you realize you're just wasting time reimplementing a buggier version of half of Rails.

On the other hand, I've had very good experiences factoring subsets of Rails apps out into trivial HTTP/JSON services, and frontending them with Rails. That's how Microcorruption.com works, for instance.

[czbond]

I've taken a similar path as you - trying "Go for all", and ending up front-ending them with Rails,Node, etc. I felt sort of dirty doing it - but the Go ecosystem specifically around web projects is not nearly as far along for "basic things" as Rails. Heck, I saw last night that people were arguing on the right way to create basic web auth in Go!

[myblake]

Factoring out microservices into Go (I assume where you need better performance or concurrency) seems like a really interesting way to go rather than cutting over wholesale. Anything about it particularly difficult or interesting, or was it pretty straight forward?

[jlhonora]

Why use Rails as a frontend? One of the reasons I'm using Go for service decoupling is to get rid of Rails long startup times. I just route the requests using Nginx and skip Rails altogether.

[tptacek]

Because it's much faster to build functionality in Rails than in Golang, and not every feature of an app has the same performance requirements.

[rapind]

I think jlhonora just means to proxy from nginx directly for the services that aren't powered by rails. Like 90% of the site served from rails and the high performance services are just different nginx backends.

Potentially what you're already doing.

[jlhonora]

Exactly

[tptacek]

Yep.

[rapind]

This is what we've done. Start with Rails behind nginx, add varnish caching when needed, redis when needed, node (or golang or w/e) when necessary for the real time bits, etc.

Get's a bit messy with all these moving parts, but I think that's the just the nature of large projects. Elixir + Phoenix looks interesting though...

[147]

Same stack for Starfighter?

[tptacek]

We are Rails, Golang, and Postgres, with most of our code in Golang.