A Tale at Any Scale
Justin Herrick • Chicago, IL • Talk

Date: September 06, 2025
Published: not published
Announced: Tue, 29 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

What really sets a 5-year-old Rails codebase apart from one that's been evolving for over 14 years? What patterns emerge when you work in a codebase with over a million commits and more than a decade of continuous development? In this talk, we'll dive into a few of the lessons learned from working inside a very old and very large Rails codebase. We will talk about what works (and what doesn't) as both your team and your codebase grow, which best practices stand the test of time, and how even the massive codebases share common traits with projects of all sizes. Whether you're maintaining a startup app or contributing to a legacy system, you'll leave with new insights you can apply to your work.

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