Move off Rails now GitHub, is clearly not working for you. It took you this far, now go move to something that doesn't sh*ts the bed twice every month.
Rails is (apparently still) a popular target for haters, but for projects at Github's scale it's rarely a code logic/framework-level blunder that's taking the service down. It's generally a cascade of failures in things like multiple database systems, auto-scaling, dns/caching, etc.
There are projects bigger than GitHub that do all of these things and still doesn't fail as much as GitHub. Honestly, both of us speculating. You can't say for sure if it's not Rails and I can't say if it's not anything else.
> for projects at Github's scale it's rarely a code logic/framework-level blunder that's taking the service down. It's generally a cascade of failures in things like multiple database systems, auto-scaling, dns/caching, etc.
This is just guessing. You can't honestly tell what is causing the issue.
Not guessing, postmortems are regularly posted on this site and elsewhere. These kinds of failures are generally not someone using some "magic" (or whatever other pejorative term) feature of a framework.
Flask (python) or even CodeIgniter (php) are my frameworks of choice for this sort of thing. They may be a bit old and organizing a large project could be difficult but nothing can beat them on performance!
Indeed. Anything that has so much magic in it is bound to bite you in the a. There will be a time when there is so much code and magic that no one really understands the system well.
Twitter too was on Rails in the initial days which helped it took off, and then realised they need to move to JVM(Scala) to scaled and they have been performing brilliantly since then.
Now, that MS has bought them, why don't they use the brilliant tech MS has (.NET, .NET Core) and be more reliable?
