[imheretolearn]

> But Rails doesn't scale so what are we even doing

This without context is meaningless. What is the cost in $$ and engineering time to scale to that level? Would a native image be able to scale to the same level at half the total cost?

[gls2ro]

You seem to imply that you know better than the CEO if Rails is a good fit both from product and cost perspective. Unless you are the CFO or have inside information I will be skeptical of the idea that I - an outsider of Shopify - would know better than them what would works best for them in terms of tech stack and costs savings.

Even if I would be a consultant for them I will first try to understand the current situation and then imply a native image will have half the total cost is a good solution. What if reducing the hosting costs will actually damage their speed of pivoting and adapting to changes?

[charcircuit]

The ability to scale is independent from the cost to build / change that thing.