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James Thompson in The Plain Programmer

Nov 10, 2017

Applying Clean Architecture to Ruby on Rails: First Impressions

On the team I work with at Nav we’ve got three different projects running that have all been experimenting with Clean Architecture. My project in particular is a green field effort where Ruby on Rails was chosen as the…

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James Thompson in The Plain Programmer

Dec 21, 2017

Identifiers in Microservices Systems

In a microservices system data tends to get spread out. Without a consistent mechanism for…

James Thompson in The Plain Programmer

Dec 1, 2017

Applying Clean Architecture to Ruby on Rails: Green Fields

This is the second installment in a short series on my experiences applying Clean Architecture to Ruby on Rails. The first part provides some…

James Thompson in The Plain Programmer

Dec 27, 2017

Defining Principles for Software Engineering

Streamline software engineering decisions with a…

James Thompson in The Plain Programmer

Nov 16, 2017

RubyConf 2017 Retrospective — Day 1

As a devoted Rubyist for the last eleven years, I continue to find things to love about Ruby and…

James Thompson in The Plain Programmer

Jul 26, 2017

Principles of Software Engineering

I recently watched a presentation by Peter Campbell from 2016’s O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference in London. The presentation was titled “Architecture as Belief.” The talk’s emphasis was on identifying and discussing the fundamental principles that underly…