architecture
architecture
ruby
How to audit a legacy Rails codebase without getting lost
Auditing a legacy Rails codebase starts with one question: what is the team afraid to change? A practical method for finding real hotspots, building a small audit ledger, using tools and AI without drowning in output, and delivering one page that people act on.
event-sourcing
Event Sourcing in practice: Lessons from the trenches
Event Sourcing can be introduced to legacy systems incrementally, no big rewrite required. Lessons from production: the migration event technique, upcasting old events, right-sizing aggregates, stream lifecycles, and payoffs in audits, analytics, and debugging.
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Dealing with legacy code that uses different method naming conventions
Legacy services with mismatched method names (validate, execute!, run!) can be unified with Ruby method objects. How to build one dispatcher that calls the right method on each class, why it beats conditionals, and what it does for readability.