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Build a financial exchange with Ruby on Rails, MongoDB, and Redis. What could go wrong?

https://engineering.coinbase.com/november-29th-december-1st-...




Stripe is on Ruby and Mongo and they seem to be doing OK.


Good point.


Why do people still use a document database with no transactions for domains with a fairly slim and rarely changing schemas?


the expertise of their engineers leans that way .... why do we have many techs that can do the same thing? ... engineering is a social science




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