> I look at a "sort of" competitor in our industry, and their rate of feature development is ridiculously slow by comparison.
Seconded. At my org, Ruby/Rails is our competitive advantage.
Our 5-6 competitors are all Java/.NET shops -- we deliver fixes and new features dramatically faster and deploy them with ease. It gets noticed.
The main downside is rails doesn't scale well re: complexity so regular refactors are necessary (ours is a high-volume big data app).
For performance/cost, it took some doing but by strategically moving business logic to higher performance techs we've even managed to get to a great spot there.
Seconded. At my org, Ruby/Rails is our competitive advantage.
Our 5-6 competitors are all Java/.NET shops -- we deliver fixes and new features dramatically faster and deploy them with ease. It gets noticed.
The main downside is rails doesn't scale well re: complexity so regular refactors are necessary (ours is a high-volume big data app).
For performance/cost, it took some doing but by strategically moving business logic to higher performance techs we've even managed to get to a great spot there.