Rafael Zamaris

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Software engineer at Upside who became lead maintainer of the Spree open-source e-commerce framework when Upside took it over in 2022 as the third company to maintain it. Presented at wroclove.rb 2023 about the challenges and practices of scaling an open-source framework that other companies use to go from MVP to IPO.

role

lead maintainer of Spree

employer

Upside

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attended

wroclove.rb 2023 event

Speaker at the conference.

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authored

Scaling an Open Source E-Commerce Framework talk

Delivered the talk on maintaining Spree at wroclove.rb 2023.

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Dependency Injection concept

Advocates replacing monkey patches with dependency-injected service objects.

person Rafael Zamaris

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Optional Gradual Typing concept

Advocates shipping optional type signatures for Ruby libraries, à la TypeScript.

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Depreciation Schedule concept

Recommends explicit deprecation with log warnings over abrupt breaking changes.

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uses

Sorbet tool

Experimenting with Sorbet in the Spree codebase to type service-object interfaces.

person Rafael Zamaris

works_at

Upside company

Self-introduction: 'I work at Upside which is a software consultancy / software house'.

role: software engineer / Spree lead maintainer

person Rafael Zamaris

works_on

Spree tool

Leads Spree maintenance on behalf of Upside, the framework's third lead maintainer since 2022.

role: lead maintainer

Provenance

Created in: Scaling Spree: Maintaining an Open Source E-Commerce Fram... 2026-04-17 22:12
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