<story><title>Zendesk to be acquired</title><url>https://investor.zendesk.com/ir-home/press-releases/press-releases-details/2022/Zendesk-to-Be-Acquired-by-Investor-Group-Led-by-Hellman--Friedman-and-Permira-for-10.2-Billion/default.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nickjj</author><text>Up until yesterday I didn&amp;#x27;t know Zendesk was written in Rails. They had a talk at RailsConf 2022[0] where they went over how they handle a billion requests a day with mostly a Rails monolith.&lt;p&gt;I wonder why they&amp;#x27;re not brought up more when talking about large Rails apps. Is there an interesting (read: bad) history with them and Ruby?&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=mJw3al4Ms2o&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=mJw3al4Ms2o&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cplanas</author><text>Author of the talk here. Thank you, you made my day by sharing my presentation. :)&lt;p&gt;One thing I would like to add after reading some of the comments here. The &amp;quot;1 billion requests&amp;#x2F;day&amp;quot; is actually an understatement so the title has a nicer ring. Last time I checked we were around 2B -and that&amp;#x27;s according the most conservative approximation-. Those are requests that hit the application, excluding the CDN caching layer.&lt;p&gt;BTW, happy to answer any questions!</text></comment>
<story><title>Zendesk to be acquired</title><url>https://investor.zendesk.com/ir-home/press-releases/press-releases-details/2022/Zendesk-to-Be-Acquired-by-Investor-Group-Led-by-Hellman--Friedman-and-Permira-for-10.2-Billion/default.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nickjj</author><text>Up until yesterday I didn&amp;#x27;t know Zendesk was written in Rails. They had a talk at RailsConf 2022[0] where they went over how they handle a billion requests a day with mostly a Rails monolith.&lt;p&gt;I wonder why they&amp;#x27;re not brought up more when talking about large Rails apps. Is there an interesting (read: bad) history with them and Ruby?&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=mJw3al4Ms2o&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=mJw3al4Ms2o&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pen2l</author><text>There’s also that when you’re kind of big, there’s a brand to be maintained and that rarely involves presenting the dissected view of your stack. In fact at some it’s readily avoided by some.
I recently discovered, for example, that Django-REST is quite often used for big sites. Like Robinhood and Eventbrite.</text></comment>