# Deconstructing the Monolith: Designing Software that Maximizes Developer Productivity

DevFeed: [Deconstructing the Monolith: Designing Software that Maximizes Developer Productivity](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/deconstructing-the-monolith-designing-software-that-maximizes-developer-productivity-1362.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://shopify.engineering/deconstructing-monolith-designing-software-maximizes-developer-productivity>)

Author: Kirsten Westeinde

Published: 2019-02-21T20:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering.md>), [Shopify Engineering - Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering-shopify-engineering.md>)

Topics: [Shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/shopify.md>), [software-architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software-architecture.md>), [Rails](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/rails.md>), [Ruby](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ruby.md>), [Architecture & Design](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/architecture-design.md>), [code productivity](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code-productivity.md>), [Microservice](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/microservice.md>), [Microservices](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/microservices.md>), [App](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/app.md>)

Tags: [app](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/app.md>), [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [developer-productivity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer-productivity.md>), [microservices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/microservices.md>), [ruby](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ruby.md>), [shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/shopify.md>), [software-architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-architecture.md>)

## AI overview

Shopify explains how it evolved a large Ruby on Rails monolith into a modular monolith. The approach keeps one codebase while defining and enforcing boundaries between components, balancing the trade-offs of monolithic and microservices architectures as the application grows.

## Source excerpt

Designing Software that Maximizes Developer Productivity. Learn how Shopify took its code base from monolith to modular monolith.