I’m in the same boat, unsure if this is outdated. I left Airbnb five years ago and haven’t followed up to ask anyone what the current state of the tech is.
I’m not trying to follow the latest Ruby dustup and don’t have a stake in it but as an Airbnb alum I did find this part particularly identifiable:
“Yet, Ruby and Rails remain the default stack at Shopify, and the only reason for that is the CEO. Every Shopify employee knows that suggesting straying away from Ruby wouldn’t fly there. And I’m convinced that if it were anyone else at the helm, Shopify would have joined the long list of companies that attempted to migrate to something else and are now stuck with both a Ruby monolith and a ton of half-migrated micro-services in Java or Go.”
This is fantastically creative. And the author does a great job of starting out by describing why this is useful.
And then using SQLite to insert and update DOM elements? Holy cow, icing on the cake. Unlike the first part, there’s no explanation of why you’d want to do that. But by that point I was so drawn in that I didn’t care and was just enjoying the ride.