I wonder.. are there more Ruby developers who are billionaires than for any other programming language? Think founders of GitHub, HashiCorp, and Shopify, at least..

Really happy to ship all this with only 2 full-time engineers. A testament to the bet we made on @rails! twitter.com/DanielZarick/s…

Rails is an incredible option for high scale web apps. (my entire career is high traffic @rails apps. Worked at GitHub, now PlanetScale. We support databases for some of the largest web apps in the world.)

On 2 separate occasions this week, have heard the "Ruby is too slow/doesn't scale" line fed to non-technical people trying to get MVPs built - by people who *are* technical and are meant to be advising them, who clearly don't know and would rather lie-to-seem-smart than find out

"Rails IS SLOW!" I have been writing Ruby on Rails apps for a long time. And while I've heard many people claim that Rails is slow (in terms of performance), that's rarely the real problem. Let me explain... 🧵👇

How fast is a #rubyonrails app in API mode with well-chosen indexes and 35M+ rows in a #mysql database? Well, the average response time is, according to #newrelic, below 6ms. pic.twitter.com/WbSKRLxcqd