As Rails monoliths grow, coupling becomes increasingly difficult to manage. Developers often reach for microservices to help simplify things, but instead find higher complexity. The Modular Monolith approach is a proven, lightweight alternative that offers the benefits of enforced boundaries without being cumbersome. I spoke at the 2023 Rocky Mountain Ruby conference on how teams can use a phased approach to refactoring toward this style using the packwerk gem. At Doximity, we've used this gem and a phased approach to break some of our most critical rails applications into modules that are easier for our teams to work with.
In November, 2023, I also chatted with Elise Shaffer on The Ruby on Rails Podcast about our experience with application modularization at Doximity.
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