They won’t tell the name of the company or give details on the types of applications. Then they claim what seems like unbelievable numbers. If 16% of my apps were on Rails and they were only generating .5% of my support calls I think I’d be inclined to move all my apps to Rails as quickly as possible. That project may very well have the greatest RoI in the history of business. If those numbers hold your support calls would go from 1800 a month to around 37.
Also, what company moves 16% of their apps to an alternate platform and doesn’t bother to hire one single support person for that platform (when they employ 40)?
Could be true. But I have no reason to believe it.
The numbers sound encouraging, but I imagine the bias is in the details of the developer.
In a big company, who is going to be allowed to take the new technology risk? Senior developers. I imagine that the average dev on their Rails projects is much more competent than on their Java projects. Not becuase it's Rails, but because it's risky.
It's believable just because app development in general has improved from 10 years ago. Maybe it has nothing to do with Rails but the improvements could come from developers using current best practices?
Given that the article author is a Rails developer, I'm assuming they out-source the support on their Rails apps. Still odd, but I can definitely attest to more bigger companies moving to Rails, with yet more anecdotal evidence :)
I think I’d be inclined to move all my apps to Rails as quickly as possible
"as quickly as possible" could be years, even decades. Nothing I've ever done in IT was as difficult as porting existing (ancient) business logic to new technology. It's often easier to just start over.
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I don’t know. Seems fishy.
They won’t tell the name of the company or give details on the types of applications. Then they claim what seems like unbelievable numbers. If 16% of my apps were on Rails and they were only generating .5% of my support calls I think I’d be inclined to move all my apps to Rails as quickly as possible. That project may very well have the greatest RoI in the history of business. If those numbers hold your support calls would go from 1800 a month to around 37.
Also, what company moves 16% of their apps to an alternate platform and doesn’t bother to hire one single support person for that platform (when they employ 40)?
Could be true. But I have no reason to believe it.
The numbers sound encouraging, but I imagine the bias is in the details of the developer.
In a big company, who is going to be allowed to take the new technology risk? Senior developers. I imagine that the average dev on their Rails projects is much more competent than on their Java projects. Not becuase it's Rails, but because it's risky.
It's believable just because app development in general has improved from 10 years ago. Maybe it has nothing to do with Rails but the improvements could come from developers using current best practices?
Given that the article author is a Rails developer, I'm assuming they out-source the support on their Rails apps. Still odd, but I can definitely attest to more bigger companies moving to Rails, with yet more anecdotal evidence :)
I think I’d be inclined to move all my apps to Rails as quickly as possible
"as quickly as possible" could be years, even decades. Nothing I've ever done in IT was as difficult as porting existing (ancient) business logic to new technology. It's often easier to just start over.