2025 was a big year for #ChicagoRuby
We hosted 19 talks from some of the brightest minds in our Ruby community — covering DDD, modular monoliths, GenAI, Hotwire, developer happiness, resilience & more. The full lineup in comments👇
Daniel Schadd @ LaunchPad Lab — “Solid Queue”
Brian Lesperance @ Chime — “Dev Containers”
Tony Yunker @ Hashrocket — “Kamal”
Ifat Ribon @ LaunchPad Lab — “Build or Buy?”
@noelrap @ Chime — “Does Ruby Love Me Back?”

Lionel Barrow @ Carefeed — Modular Monolith lessons
Chelsea Troy @ Mozilla — GenAI & productivity
Joel Hawksley @ GitHub — 5 years of UI architecture
Andrzej Krzywda @ Arkency — 15 years of Rails + DDD

Alan Ridlehoover & Fito von Zastrow @ Cisco — Decoupling from Rails
Miles Georgi @ Green Tech — Foobara & domain complexity
Stephen Margheim @ Prevail — Testing jobs for resilience

@aji @ @thoughtbot — Incremental automation
@jremsikjr @ @be_flagrant — “What if we did less?”
@pushcx @ Stripe — “Perfect is Too Expensive”
Prathana Shiva @ NexHealth — Multi-tenancy → UUIDs
Andy Andrea @ Panorama Education — Reusable JSON Schemas
Patrick McSweeny — “Hotwire Your UX”