# Building Products at SoundCloud --Part I: Dealing with the Monolith

DevFeed: [Building Products at SoundCloud --Part I: Dealing with the Monolith](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/building-products-at-soundcloud-part-i-dealing-with-the-monolith-2002.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog//building-products-at-soundcloud-part-1-dealing-with-the-monolith>)

Published: 2014-06-11T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [SoundCloud Backstage Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/soundcloud-backstage-blog.md>)

Topics: [web applications](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-applications.md>)

Tags: [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [finagle](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/finagle.md>), [microservices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/microservices.md>), [ruby](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ruby.md>), [scala](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scala.md>), [scalability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scalability.md>)

## AI overview

SoundCloud describes moving from a monolithic Ruby on Rails system toward microservices to address scalability problems.

## Source excerpt

Most of SoundCloud's products are written in Scala, Clojure, or JRuby. This wasn't always the case. Like other start-ups, SoundCloud was...