Lessons From Refactoring a Large Rails Monolith

Event Timeline:

• Doors open at 6:00pm at Web Hosting Canada (7250 Clark St Bureau 301, Montreal, Quebec H2R 2Y3)
• Talk starts at 7:00pm.
• Networking time starts at 8:00pm at nearby Brasserie Harricana / Restaurant & Boutique (95 Rue Jean-Talon O, Montréal, QC H2R 2Y5).

Lessons From Refactoring a Large Rails Monolith [1h] - Bart de Water - Founding Engineer - Thatch

A few months after joining Shopify, Bart found a bug with how certain currencies are handled during payment processing. Instead of just applying a fix and moving on, he pitched a refactoring project and got more than he bargained for. In this this talk he'll talk about the challenges and lessons learned from refactoring a core piece of functionality across the codebase.

Speaker Bio:

Bart is a founding software engineer at Thatch, where he is building the next generation of health benefits administration for US companies. Prior to that he was on the payments team at Shopify as both a developer and manager.

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