Bringing Your Rails Monolith Along As The Business Grows

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Claims a Rails monolith scales to ~100 engineers and stays maintainable, supported by 4,500+ commits, ~48 committers, ~62k lines of Ruby and ~61k JS, and 97% test coverage. Tooling includes Brakeman, bundle-audit, custom rubocop rules and Datadog. Migration is pragmatic and incremental: convert slow serializers first and enforce Json API serializer conversion rules on touched controllers, postpone big rewrites, spin up an architecture team late, and regret delaying Ember frontend tests.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 4:22How Big of a Monolith?
3. 5:50Testing The Beast
4. 9:07Other Tools
5. 10:09Usage of Those Tools
6. 11:27Modernizing The Code
7. 14:00Case Study: AMS and JSON-API
8. 17:26Case Study: Enums
9. 21:17Case Study: State Machines
10. 22:55Retrospective Results

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