RailsConf 2022 - Experimental Patterns in ActiveRecord by John Crepezzi

ActiveRecord provides a great deal of flexibility and speed of implementation for developers making new apps. As our teams and codebase grow and our services need to continue to scale, some of the patterns we use can start to get in our way. We've seen a bit of that at GitHub, and as a result have been experimenting with some new ways to work with ActiveRecord queries, reduce N+1s, and isolate model details. In this talk, I'll go over some the problems we've been facing, cover how we've been addressing them so far, and show some new experiments & patterns I've been working through.