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The "is Ruby dead" obituary runs every year. It confuses hype velocity with shipping velocity — and Rails 8 quietly deleted the actual reasons people left: Redis, Sidekiq, the Node build step.
We started with ten Ruby and Elixir services serving real-time messaging for 450K students across 900+ universities. Two years later we had six, fully Elixir, and on-call alerts had halved. The migration order, the patterns we leaned on, and what I'd do differently today.