Big Corps, Big Worries Some points on selling Ruby to Big Corps
summary
Argues that Ruby is stable, mature and production-ready, citing a Rails-powered insurance site that promises to find a plan in two seconds as a concrete win; points to large-scale Ruby deployments — GitHub, Airbnb, and Shopify = 11% global e‑commerce — to counter “does not scale.” Claims Ruby hires deliver higher skill per dollar than typical corporate Java teams, frames hiring and ROI as the sales lever, and notes an ironic tooling choice: the merch site was built with JavaScript.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:26Why Ruby appeals
- 3:33Ruby stability in production
- 5:19Ruby real-world scaling
- 7:48Ruby dependencies strength
- 13:29Ruby ROI for corps
- 13:50Closing remarks
