We have 100s of queues processing millions of jobs in sidekiq queues at any given time.

These are data and compute heavy workloads that take anywhere from minutes to hours for a request to be completed, but the UI takes this into account.

Users submit a request and then continue onto whatever is the next thing they intend to do and then they can subscribe to various async notification channels.

It’s not the right choice for everything, but it’s the right choice for something’s.

Yes, yes, yes, everyone knows about Shopify and no that’s not the multi billion dollar monolith shop I’m referring to, but we definitely have taken some inspiration from their excellent practices. We also brought in a lot of best in breed from Microsoft and Amazon.

Bottom line is it’s about the talent and the discipline. At the end of the day it’s not bad languages that are the problem it’s bad engineers.

Hard disagree. I work on one of the largest Rails codebases out there. Millions of lines of code running in a monolith. I have learned more in this shop about scaling, observability, mature system designs, zero downtime upgrades, deploys, etc…

I been in this field for almost 30 years and have worked with whatever tech the job required. Still I learned more at a Rails shop with more than 200 engineers all working in the same monolith shipping to production multiple times every day.

I agree robots breakdown a lot, however if you think robots are more expensive to maintain you may want to take a look at the cost of American medical costs.

Insider trading from congress, the senate, and the offices of the president is nothing new. There is a reason people have been tracking and mimicking Pelosi's trades for years.