Panel: 

• David Richards
• Dave Kimura
• Catherine Meyers

Special Guests: Dan MangesIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel talks to Dan Manges about his blog post entitled The Modular Monolith: Rails Architecture. Dan is the CTO of Root, which is a car insurance carrier in Columbus, Ohio. They started the company a few years ago because they felt that the prices people pay for car insurance should be based primarily on diving behavior and not demographics. They talk about how he built the architecture of the app for his company, what a Modular Monolith is, their different gems, and more!In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Dan intro
• CTO and Co-Founder of Root
• Tracking driving habits of users to determine rate
• Ruby on Rails
• Architecture of the app
• Back-end platform in Rails
• Mobile as the primary interface
• See the app in the Google Play and iTunes stores
• Current direction for the company
• Identify good architectural boundaries in the code base
• Monoliths
• What is Modular Monolith?
• Why did you decide not to go the microservices route?
• Microservices introduce tradeoffs in your efficiency of making changes
• Not having a too fragmented back-end platform
• Do you have one large schema?
• Maintaining productivity
• Engines
• Separate integration tests
• Integration tests between various components
• Their rating engine
• Deployments
• His article: The Modular Monolith: Rails Architecture
• Highly recommends their modular monolith
• Everything is in one codebase
• And much, much more!

Links:

• The Modular Monolith: Rails Architecture
• Root
• Ruby on Rails
• Root in the Google Play store
• Root in iTunes
• dan-manges.com
• @dan_manges
• Dan’s Medium
• Dan’s GitHub

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Special Guest: Dan Manges.