ShipIt! presents: Packwerk at Shopify

Without code boundaries in a monolith, it’s difficult for developers to make changes in their respective areas. Like when you make a straightforward change that shockingly results in breaking unrelated tests in a different part of the codebase, or dig around a codebase to find a class or module with more than 2,000 lines of code!
You end up with anti-patterns like spaghetti code and large classes that know too much. The codebase is harder to develop, maintain and understand, leading to difficulty adding new features. It’s frustrating for developers working on the codebase. Developer happiness and productivity is important to us.
So, we created an open source tool to establish code boundaries in Rails applications. We call it Packwerk.
During this event you will
- Learn more about the problems Packwerk solves.
- See how we built Packwerk.
- Understand how we use Packwerk at Shopify.
- See a demo of Packwerk.
- Learn how you can get started with Packwerk.

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Thanks. For reference, this is part of a blog post at shopify.engineering/enforcing-modularity-rails-apps-packwerk where there are links to the github code to kick the tires.