The Operational Monolith
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Wrote an article exploring what Rails might look like if it was designed around modern operational constraints from day one.
The core idea is an "operational monolith": keep the deployment and developer ergonomics of a monolith while making observability, reliability, and runtime behavior first-class concerns.
If you are interested in framework design tradeoffs between simplicity and operational control, this article goes through the approach in detail.
If Rails Was Designed Today: The Operational Monolith