About this episode

Robby talks with Nikky Southerland about maintaining a mature Rails app at Shop-Ware over the past decade.

Robby is joined by Nikky Southerland, Lead Software Engineer at Shop-Ware — a cloud-based platform that helps independent automotive service shops run their businesses. Ruby on Rails has powered Shop-Ware since the first line of code was written back in 2013, and more than a decade later the codebase is still 90%+ Rails. Robby talks with Nikky about what it actually takes to keep a mature Rails app moving with a team roughly half the size it used to be, including a frontend migration that's s...

People in this episode

Host: Robby Russell

Guest: Nikky Southerland

Topics covered

• Ruby on Rails
• software engineering
• automotive technology
• codebase maintenance
• frontend migration

Keywords

• Rails
• Shop-Ware
• software development
• cloud-based platform
• automotive service

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Organizations: Shop-Ware

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