Drop your app/services!

At Balkan Ruby 2026, in Sofia, Bulgaria
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Vladimir Dementyev speaks at Balkan Ruby 2026, a conference for hot takes held inside Sofia’s mineral museum.

Balkan Ruby is done with safe opinions—bring your hot takes. The conference is held at Sofia’s National Museum “Earth and Man”, a restored 19th-century barracks housing over 20,000 mineral specimens, including actual ruby gemstones.

Vladimir Dementyev’s hot take is “Drop your app/services!”: why did service objects become popular citizens of Rails codebases, what even is a service object in the end, and what are the alternatives?

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