Best of Rails — February 2024

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   ByteByteGo·2y

   A Brief History of Airbnb’s Architecture

   Learn about the history of Airbnb's architecture, the challenges faced during their migration to a Service-Oriented Architecture, and the tools and techniques they used to support their SOA.

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   Theo - t3․gg·2y

   Leaving Everything Behind For Elixir

   A web developer shares their journey from starting with Elixir to eventually using Phoenix and Elixir for web development. They compare their experiences with different frameworks and programming paradigms, highlighting the advantages and disadvantages of each. Ultimately, they find satisfaction with Elixir and Phoenix, but acknowledge that the perfect tech stack doesn't exist and that individual preferences play a role in choosing the right tools.

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   Medium·2y

   Introduction to Loco: the “Rust on Rails”

   Loco is a web or API framework for Rust, inspired by Rails. It offers a safe, robust software development experience and provides everything that Rails has, including data access, controllers, views, background jobs, websockets, and more. Rust is the perfect language for Loco, offering developer happiness and zero-effort performance. Loco is designed to be simple, lightweight, and efficient, with the ability to turn off any parts of the framework that are not needed. It supports rapid development, deployment, and includes built-in SaaS authentication.

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