Publications Involving Packwerk

Packwerk is a tool for enforcing boundaries between components in a Ruby on Rails application, developed at Shopify. I had the original idea, prototyped it, and later led the development of the open source tool together with a kick-ass team.

Packwerk’s adoption in the Ruby on Rails community is a testament to its effectiveness. It has been the subject of numerous talks and publications.

Talks

• Rob Faldo, “Improving Rails scalability using modularity with enforced boundaries”, London Ruby User Group July 2021
• Alex Evanczuk, “Laying the Cultural and Technical Foundation for Big Rails”, RailsConf 2022
• Marc Reynolds, “Modularizing Rails Monoliths One Bite at a Time”, Rocky Mountain Ruby 2023
• Julián Pinzón Eslava, “All You Need Is Rails (Engines)”, RubyConf Australia 2023

Writing

• Stephan Hagemann’s book inspired by packwerk
• Gusto’s tooling ecosystem around packwerk
• Packwerk adoption journeys: Penny Lane, Babbel, The Codest (1, 2)