Improving Dev Experience with Overmind

Web apps are born with a healthy amount of naivety. There aren’t many expectations of what the apps should do so they have the freedom to do… well, anything. This is great for the early stages of development, but as these apps grow and take on more responsibilites a flexible, little app can quickly become hard to manage. Luckily, there are lots of solutions for these pain points. Instead of putting all the burden on the app, we can turn to well established tools for help. We can move work to the background with tools like Sidekiq or move search responsbilites to search engines like Elasticsearch.