You seem to be misinterpreting what we’re doing at Shopify. We pretty much never work on the product or anything like that, and we don’t go around the app chasing perf issues either.
At best we work on the infra or dev tools to encourage or enforce better patterns, or sometimes in some kind of support capacity for teams having Ruby or Rails specific issues, but Shopify would do fine without us.
We’re mostly here to ensure Rails and the Ruby ecosystem Shopify heavily depends on is maintained and healthy.
Now maybe you need to tier talent to scale a Rails infra (I don’t think so), but Shopify’s presence in the Rails or Ruby core teams is no indication of that.
You seem to be misinterpreting what we’re doing at Shopify. We pretty much never work on the product or anything like that, and we don’t go around the app chasing perf issues either.
At best we work on the infra or dev tools to encourage or enforce better patterns, or sometimes in some kind of support capacity for teams having Ruby or Rails specific issues, but Shopify would do fine without us.
We’re mostly here to ensure Rails and the Ruby ecosystem Shopify heavily depends on is maintained and healthy.
Now maybe you need to tier talent to scale a Rails infra (I don’t think so), but Shopify’s presence in the Rails or Ruby core teams is no indication of that.