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Honest Take — Before You Begin
Honest reflections on organizing code at scale
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Course · 7 lessons
~60 hr
Advanced
Architecture Patterns & Domain Modeling
Master the architectural patterns that keep large Rails applications maintainable: layered architecture, DDD, modular monoliths, service objects, and the decision framework for when to extract microservices.
reading · we frame, you read MIT or the canonical
taught · we author, no canonical fits
↺ spirals back to earlier lessons
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Complete Performance, Profiling & Scaling first.
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L2
Read: Layered Design for Ruby on Rails Applications (Shcherbakov)
Approach: READ cover-to-cover
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Arkency blog
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L3
Read: Sustainable Web Development with Ruby on Rails (Copeland)
Approach: READ cover-to-cover
primary
Arkency blog
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L4
Read: Growing Rails Applications in Practice
Approach: READ cover-to-cover
primary
Arkency blog
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L5
Read: Modular Rails
Approach: READ cover-to-cover
primary
Arkency blog
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L6
Module Checklist
Work through each item before the checkpoint.
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L7
Checkpoint: Take a medium-to-large Rails app. Map its current archite...
Take a medium-to-large Rails app. Map its current architecture. Identify 3 domains that should be bounded contexts. Design a modular monolith architecture using Rails engines. Wri…
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7 lessons. Read in order; spiral back when you need to. By the end you'll have used the core ideas twice — once on the abstract, once on something you'll meet at work next week.