024: Structuring Rails Apps with Matt Swanson

06/27/24 • 50 min

In this conversation, Matt discusses his podcast Yagny FM and the motivation behind it. He also talks about his approach to open source contributions within the Rails ecosystem. Matt shares his thoughts on Hotwire and the misconception of using all its features. He discusses the trade-offs between basic conditionals and feature management tools in terms of long-term maintainability and scalability. Matt also touches on the use of feature flags and how to balance simplicity with increasing complexity over time. Lastly, he briefly mentions his experience with background jobs and the potential move to Solid Queue. In this conversation, Matt Swenson discusses considerations for choosing job processors in Rails applications, the benefits of using ViewComponent for front-end development, and his experience working at Arrows, a B2B SaaS company.

Matt's tweet:

"IMO a Hotwire app should be like 85% Drive, 10% Frames, 5% Streams -- often I see people (including articles/guides) that have it almost completely flipped."

Feature Flags: The stupid simple way to de-stress production releases
Solid Queue Consideration
Arrows

Matt's tweet:

"IMO a Hotwire app should be like 85% Drive, 10% Frames, 5% Streams -- often I see people (including articles/guides) that have it almost completely flipped."

Feature Flags: The stupid simple way to de-stress production releases
Solid Queue Consideration
Arrows

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023: Solid Queue Internals with Rosa Gutierrez

In this interview with Rosa Gutierrez of 37signals, Rosa elaborates on her work, particularly her contributions to Solid Queue and its implementation alongside Active Job. She describes the motivations behind developing Solid Queue, addressing performance issues with existing systems like Resque, and transitioning some workloads to database-backed queues. Rosa also explains the technical details of Solid Queue's architecture, including supervisor and dispatcher roles, how it handles job prioritization, concurrency, and the challenges of ensuring performance in high-load environments. Essential advice is provided on when to use or avoid Solid Queue, depending on specific needs and existing setups.

Solid Queue
37signals

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