The second-to-last post[0] talks about how they decided to migrate their stack from Ruby on Rails to Haskell, and are now in the seventh (!) year of that migration.
My first thought was: does that mean they've been actively migrating for seven years, or just "we migrated the most important stuff and can't see any strong business reasons to move some of these microservices that do their job just fine"?
But reading the post, it seems the main reason is they no longer understand all the Ruby code!
I am really really surprised Bellroy could afford to hire developers for their own store. I guess they are now much bigger than I thought? I watch them grow from an unknown brand that focus on slimming your wallet in the early 10s, to now I bump into people who have actually heard of used it. Or at least seen the online ads. Pretty amazing.
I remember Gwyneth Paltrow said something along the line moving away from Shopify was the biggest mistake she made with her online shop. I think that was before Pandemic and Shopify have improved a lot since then.
Which makes me wonder if it make sense for Bellroy to continue their path.
Bellroy, the maker of quirky travel accessories and wallets, has a software stack written in Haskell?? TIL
The second-to-last post[0] talks about how they decided to migrate their stack from Ruby on Rails to Haskell, and are now in the seventh (!) year of that migration.
[0] https://exploring-better-ways.bellroy.com/designing-for-the-...
My first thought was: does that mean they've been actively migrating for seven years, or just "we migrated the most important stuff and can't see any strong business reasons to move some of these microservices that do their job just fine"? But reading the post, it seems the main reason is they no longer understand all the Ruby code!
Seems like an insane choice to me
They're based in Collingwood, any Australian would tell you that an n year Haskel rewrite is the most normal thing about them
So is Costar, the horoscope app, of all things
At least the product is pretty esoteric too.
I am really really surprised Bellroy could afford to hire developers for their own store. I guess they are now much bigger than I thought? I watch them grow from an unknown brand that focus on slimming your wallet in the early 10s, to now I bump into people who have actually heard of used it. Or at least seen the online ads. Pretty amazing.
I remember Gwyneth Paltrow said something along the line moving away from Shopify was the biggest mistake she made with her online shop. I think that was before Pandemic and Shopify have improved a lot since then.
Which makes me wonder if it make sense for Bellroy to continue their path.