Ruby on Rails Has Scalability Issues. Here's How We Solved Them

Every few months someone declares Rails dead. Then Shopify reports another record Black Friday. In 2025, Shopify's Rails monolith handled 489 million requests per minute at peak with over 53 million database queries per second. That's not a framework that fails to scale Ruby on Rails . But the "Rails can't scale" myth keeps coming back because the Ruby on Rails scalability issues people hit in production are real. They just aren't framework problems. They're architecture and discipline problems.