Tagged: architecture
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I Added Circuit Breakers to a Rails App and Had to Patch the Gem Twice
Wrapping OutfitMaker's six external API calls in circuit breakers was the easy part. Making breaker_machines actually trip — and actually survive a worker restart — took two monkey patches and a lot of reading the gem's internals.
PWA Over Native for a Fashion App
Why I chose a Progressive Web App over native iOS/Android for OutfitMaker. Camera access works, installation works, and I don't need Apple's permission.
Rails 8 Migration on a Live Product
Upgrading from Rails 7.1.5 to 8.1 with paying users. The strategy, the gotchas, and why I fixed 103 test failures before touching the Gemfile.
My First State Machine in Rails
How OutfitMaker's outfit suggestion flow evolved from nested if/else into a proper state machine. The gem, the gotchas, and why it clarified everything.