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Nick Sutterer

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German Ruby framework author and conference speaker. Started programming around age 8 on a Mac, learning C++ from 'Tricks of the Mac Game Programming Gurus' and then Perl before moving to Ruby and Rails. Author of Trailblazer, Cells (2008) and Reform. Works for the German police building workflow-heavy applications, which drove Trailblazer 2.1's BPMN-inspired process modeling. Inspired by Piotr Solnica and Scott Wlaschin's Railway Oriented Programming. Panel representative of Trailblazer at the wroclove.rb 2018 Enterprise Rails Panel. At wroclove.rb 2022 presented '10 Things You Never Wanted To Know About Reform 3', announcing the Reform 3 redesign built on Trailblazer activities and discussing prior Reform retrospectives he gave in Odessa (~2017/18, 'Reform: What Went Wrong') and an earlier RusRuby/Rosslavl talk.

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German Police
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German
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wroclove.rb 2018 event
Present as a speaker at the 2018 edition.
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wroclove.rb 2022 event
Speaker at the conference; arrived just before his slot after multiple train cancellations.
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SUPER AIN'T SUPER From OOP To FP and Beyond! talk
Sutterer delivered this autobiographical talk at wroclove.rb 2018.
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10 Things You Never Wanted To Know About Reform 3 talk
Nick Sutterer is the sole speaker.
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Enterprise Rails Panel talk
Panelist representing Trailblazer.
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C++ tool
Learned C++ as a child from a separate book alongside Mac game programming materials.
level: beginner
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Perl tool
Credits Perl as the language where he actually learned to program.
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Ruby tool
Long-time Ruby developer, though critical of its object customization mechanics.
level: expert
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Railway Oriented Programming concept
Trailblazer's step DSL — which Reform 3 now uses — is directly inspired by Railway Oriented Programming.
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Tricks of the Mac Game Programming Gurus resource
Cites it as his first programming book.
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Enterprise Means Using Existing Tools takeaway
Advocates reusing standardized tools instead of rebuilding per project.
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Bounded Contexts Are Natural Microservice Seams takeaway
Highlights bounded contexts as clean microservice candidates when kept isolated.
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dry-validation tool
Recommends dry-validation as the validation backend for Reform 3 over Active Record validations.
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Piotr Solnica person
Discussed the parse/validate cycle and coercion-as-validation with Solnica years earlier; Solnica's dry-rb libraries back Reform 3's preferred validation stack.
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José Valim person
Discussed workflow abstractions with Elixir's creator, concluding Elixir would still need a step-DSL-like construct.
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DHH person
DHH emailed Sutterer praising Cells and Reform at the time of their release.
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German Police company
Employed at the German police, where Trailblazer 2.1 workflows are used.
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Cells tool
Author of the Cells gem.
role: author
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Reform tool
Author and maintainer of the Reform gem; currently redesigning it as Reform 3.
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person Nick Sutterer
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Tyrant tool
Author of Tyrant, a Trailblazer-based Devise replacement.
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Trailblazer tool
Author of the Trailblazer framework, on which Reform 3 is built.
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2026-04-17 16:17 seed
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10 Things You Never Wanted To Know About Reform 3 — Nick ... 2026-04-17 21:51
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