“Yet, Ruby and Rails remain the default stack at Shopify, and the only reason for that is the CEO. Every Shopify employee knows that suggesting straying away from Ruby wouldn’t fly there. And I’m convinced that if it were anyone else at the helm, Shopify would have joined the long list of companies that attempted to migrate to something else and are now stuck with both a Ruby monolith and a ton of half-migrated micro-services in Java or Go.”