Ryan Stawarz & Austin Story: Inside Doximity’s 15-Year Rails Monolith
From On Rails by Rails Foundation, Robby Russell
August 12, 2025 · 1h 12m · Season 1 · Episode 4
About this episode
The episode discusses the evolution of Doximity's Rails monolith and its impact on their platform.
In this episode of On Rails, Robby is joined by Ryan Stawarz and Austin Story from Doximity, where Ruby on Rails has powered the core of their platform for over 15 years. The trio digs into how a single Rails monolith has evolved to support 100+ engineers and a mobile-first experience for millions of healthcare professionals. From front-end framework migrations to API architecture, they explore the real-world decisions required to keep a large Rails app resilient and fast-moving. Ryan and Aus...
People in this episode
Host: Robby Russell
Guests: Ryan Stawarz, Austin Story
Topics covered
- Rails monolith
- software engineering
- healthcare technology
- API architecture
- front-end frameworks
Keywords
- Rails monolith
- Doximity
- Ruby on Rails
- software development
- healthcare professionals
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Doximity
Products: Ruby on Rails
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