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I've encountered a lot of confusion on this topic and hope people find this article helpful. Also if you find any mistakes I'd be happy to correct them!

Shopify has been a fully remote company for a few months now. https://financialpost.com/technology/shopify-is-joining-twit... We're not using zoom, but google meet - but yes, these…

> When I left, we were up to a few dozen components, and the number was climbing rapidly. I should have included this in the blog post: The number of components _needs_ to be kept …

> extension points to the way engines are implemented that could better enforce boundaries Can you expand on that? I'm not sure I follow.

you should read the first post in the series if you want to read about microservices. https://engineering.shopify.com/blogs/engineering/deconstruc...

It's all tradeoffs. You get a stronger boundary, but you also get a distributed system. Also, the first try of drawing boundaries will always be varying degrees of wrong. If you ha…

you don't work with Ruby eh? :D

Hey Leafboi - I recommend reading the first post in the series for some background https://engineering.shopify.com/blogs/engineering/deconstruc... We don't use "hardware" or "VMs" …

oops - sorry. Opened for now.

components are - same database - same runtime - same deployment - same repository That said, I don't think this is an either/or. It's a spectrum. you can have components within the…

As the author, I would know :) Thank you for the praise. Ours kind of organically grew over time, but as I've been keeping it alive for the last few years I have a pretty good idea…

It's certainly related. In very general terms, I would say splitting a Rails app into multiple engines is the same pattern as umbrella applications. However, there are more interes…

The answer to that question could probably fill another blog post :D Long story short, Rails and dependency inversion equals lots of friction. The whole framework is built on the a…

There are quite a few people talking about this kind of stuff on https://rubymod.slack.com . I can send invites, just DM me on twitter https://twitter.com/_exterm

Very interesting discussion, although there already are solutions to some of these problems in other type systems. Erlang also has optional type annotations via the dialyzer tool a…

Because they officially support only ubuntu and mint. The provide a tarball for other distros but don't officially support them.