022: Discussing Rails Camp USA with Bobbilee Hartman

06/13/24 • 29 min

In this episode, Bobbilee, a pivotal figure in the Rails community, shares the inspiring journey behind Rails Camp West. Bobbilee talks about the origins and motivations for creating Rails Camp West, rooted in her experiences at big tech conferences and her desire to create a more intimate, laid-back environment for tech enthusiasts. She highlights the first camp in 2014 and how it has grown into a beloved annual event with a 75% return rate among attendees, showcasing the community’s strong bonds.

Bobbilee delves into the distinctions between Rails Camp West and the original Australian Rails Camp, emphasising the intentional smaller scale of her gatherings to foster deeper connections and more effective networking among participants. Both camps, though different in execution, share a spirit of collaboration and passion for Rails and Ruby.

Rails Camp West

Rails Camp West

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021: From Active Record Business Logic to DDD & Events with Andrzej Krzywda

Andrzej Krzywda discusses event sourcing, event-driven architecture, and Domain-Driven Design (DDD) in the context of Ruby on Rails applications. He explains the concept of bounded contexts and how they relate to communication between different modules. He also shares insights on when and why to apply DDD to Rails applications, particularly in cases where the application becomes complex and difficult to maintain. Andrzej explores the challenges and benefits of migrating an existing Rails app to an event-driven architecture and highlights advanced event sourcing concepts such as snapshotting, projections, and versioning. In this conversation, Andrzej Krzywda discusses event sourcing and DDD in Rails applications. He explains the concepts of snapshotting and projection, which are techniques used to optimize performance and retrieve specific data from event streams. Andrzej also delves into the challenges of event versioning and how it can be managed in Rails applications. Additionally, he shares insights about the wroclove.rb conference, its history, and its focus on advanced and deep technical topics.

Takeaways
Event sourcing is a persistence mechanism that persists all the little changes that happen to a specific object, while event-driven architecture is a way of building software modules that communicate with events.

DDD involves splitting a system into contexts or domains and using events to communicate between them. It can be applied to Ruby on Rails applications, particularly in cases where the application becomes complex and difficult to maintain.
Migrating an existing Rails app to an event-driven architecture can help address issues with large classes, complex associations, and lack of modularity.

Advanced event sourcing concepts such as snapshotting, projections, and versioning can be used to optimize performance and manage data integrity in event-driven applications. Snapshotting and projection are techniques used in event sourcing to optimize performance and retrieve specific data from event streams.

Event versioning is a challenge in event sourcing, but it can be managed by introducing new event versions and implementing upcasters to convert old events to new versions.

wroclove.rb is a Ruby and Rails conference in Wrocław, Poland, that focuses on advanced and deep technical topics.
The conference aims to inspire, educate, and challenge the status quo in the Ruby and Rails community.
Rails Event Store and Eventide are two libraries that facilitate the implementation of event-driven architectures in Rails applications, each with its own philosophy and approach.

wcrolove.rb Ruby and Rails Conference
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The Rails Changelog - 022: Discussing Rails Camp USA with Bobbilee Hartman

Transcript

Emmanuel Hayford00:00:00.080

Welcome to the show, Bobbilee.

Bobbilee Hartman00:00:03.359

Thank you. Thank you. This is so awesome.

Emmanuel Hayford00:00:05.759

Yeah. It's, it's really very good to have you on the show because, first of all, I've never had the chance to meet you, and I've tried in the past a couple of times to try to make it to Rails Camp West. And every Yeah. Every year and any time I try