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Background

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Background

Design decisions, pitfalls, and migration context that shaped the codebase you see today.

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  • Design decisions — why the Rails monolith, why bounded contexts, why decomposed databases.
  • Pitfalls — known dragons. Read before touching these areas.
  • Migration context — long-running migrations in flight (Vue 2→3, Rails upgrades, work items, cells).

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