Using Avro in Ruby

At Blue Lava, we’re evolving our monolith to be more event driven. We’re not exactly breaking it up, but we are getting a few things outside of it.

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We had already put events and pub/sub in place using ActiveSupport::Notifictions. We decided to use events in response to coupling that was happening in ActiveRecord callbacks.

I’ve always wanted to write a gem that would watch all callbacks and if you operated on…