Growing pains are never fun. It doesn't mention (at least that I read) if they're using HashiCorp Open Source or Enterprise. Open Source is great and I owe my career to it but they might be hitting the scale when the Enterprise features and support start to be worth the price.

I've only used Fly.io for a personal app but I think it's a great option so I hope they keep growing.

Ah my question was answered more or less. They're an edge case which makes sense: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35048318

The configuration management tool mitamae is another mruby project: https://github.com/itamae-kitchen/mitamae

100% This series is so fun to read.

Yara is an awesome tool

Agreed, any application regardless of language or framework can age poorly. I've seen some pretty solid "long running" Rails applications that were just maintained well.

Not sure what microservice architecture has to do with it. You can have microservices that are Rails apps. :)

Yes but if you change architectures, you will have replaced much of your original codebsae.

Their private encrypted git repos and file storage is pretty solid.

Microsoft OneNote for some stuff.

Mostly Quiver (or Boostnote) with the files backed up to a remote git repo. Added benefit of being a format that is not locked in and can be parsed out later if required.

I’ve done the same thing! It’s awesome.