How to Power-Up Rails with Go, C or Rust, Preserving the Productivity of Rails
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The article discusses how to improve Rails performance by integrating it with other languages like Go, C, or Rust, while maintaining Rails' productivity, and the community shows interest in the approach.
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Rails excels at business logic, developer happiness, and rapid iteration. Still, there comes a moment when performance bottlenecks emerge, and the typical refrain is: “rewrite in Go,” “extract to microservices,” or “break up the monolith.” But there’s a better way: scaling your Rails app by upgrading to heavy-duty tools, while keeping the recipes in Ruby.
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