The Rails World 2024 Opening Keynote with DHH is now online. Watch it here.

Opening Keynote - The Myth of the Modular Monolith

As Rails applications grow over time and turn into a so-called “ball of mud”, organizations ask themselves what’s next? Should we stay the course with a monolith or migrate to microservices? At Shopify we went down the path of modularizing our monolith and since then GitHub, Gusto, and others have followed our lead. But after 6 years it’s time to ask ourselves: “Did we fix what we set out to fix? Is this better than before?”.

10:00 - 11:00

September 27th

Track 1

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Eileen Uchitelle

Rails Core & Senior Staff Engineer, Shopify

Eileen M. Uchitelle is a Senior Staff Engineer at Shopify where she helps lead the effort to improve and maintain the Rails framework and Ruby language. Her approach to solving technical problems centers around ensuring the continued stability and extensibility for individual developers and companies large and small. As a member of the Rails Core Team her goal is to ensure the long-term sustainability of the Rails framework and its continued adoption as one of the leading open-source frameworks.