Here at Workpath, our backend is a monolith written in Ruby on Rails, and that’s a great fit for our product. However, it has started to accumulate “cruft” around the edges. So we have started moving some features to separate services, as the first Outposts to our Citadel. Many RoR…

Thanks so much for the detailed and thoughtful response, I've learned a lot from it!

I’ve recently had the fortune to join Workpath as VP of Engineering. Workpath’s backend runs on Ruby on Rails, and while coding won’t be a part of my day-to-day duties, I still need and want to learn the stack. Since most of my experience is with Python, let me tell…