From 0.10 to 5.2. The story of a 13 year old Rails app
summary
A 13 year Rails lineage powers ActBlue from Rails 0.10 to 5.2 and drives real results: 30K organizations and about $3 billion raised lifetime, 41M contributions and $1.6B in the last cycle, recurring giving at ~30K contributions a day. The codebase splits into the Indigo monolith plus a React FormApp for fast forms; architecture, caching, async jobs and autoscaling handle spikes (peaks ~2,600 contribs/min ≈ 40/sec, ~350k requests/min).
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction to ActBlue
- 1:52Software development goals
- 7:56Managing technical debt
- 11:35Software obsolescence
- 15:28Healthy codebase maintenance
- 20:16Team growth and culture
- 23:46Architectural complexity
- 27:01Scaling for high traffic
- 33:53Q&A and concluding remarks
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