Vladimir shares insights on working as a consultant on legacy Rails projects and the challenges that can arise when codebases deviate from Rails conventions. We’ll also explore the evolution of Rails applications, the power of open source contributions, and Vladimir’s journey to becoming a recognized figure in the tech community. Also, Vladimir introduces AnyCable, a performance-oriented solution for real-time communication in Rails applications and provides insights into its capabilities and evolution.
Layered Rails Design with Vladimir Dementyev
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Vladimir Dementyev
Principal Backend Engineer
In this episode, Jason and Andrew are joined by guest, Vladimir Dementyev of Ruby on Rails and Evil Martians fame. Today, they touch on Vladmir’s new book on designing Rails applications, and dive into the importance of sticking to Rails principles, even in the era of microservices. Vladimir shares insights on working as a consultant on legacy Rails projects and the challenges that can arise when codebases deviate from Rails conventions.
Audio
Resources
The following resources were mentioned during the presentation or are useful additional information:
- Jason Charnes Twitter
- Chris Oliver Twitter
- Andrew Mason Twitter
- Vladimir Dementyev Twitter
- Vladimir Dementyev GitHub
- StimulusReflex Discord
- Layered Design for Ruby on Rails Applications: Discover practical design patterns for maintainable web applications by Vladimir Dementyev
- AnyCable
- HTTPie
- Rails World 2023
- Ruby for All Podcast
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- AnyCable
AnyCable
A way to build lightning-fast and reliable real-time Ruby on Rails applications that scale fast and don't cost a fortune to run. It helps add real-time features without the need to switch to another platform or language.
- HTTPieHTTPie is an open-source API testing client. The team called on Evil Martians to create the Web & Desktop version of the application. Though we started by building a complex professional UI design, we also helped add new features on the frontend and backend.
- $6.5M
- total funding
- Backed
- by Coatue
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