Adrianna Chang - From Chaos to Clarity: Structured Event Reporting in Rails

In this #RailsWorld talk, discover the Structured Event Reporter, Rails’ new approach to structured events, and see how it powers the event system inside Shopify’s monolith. Events in Rails apps are like the heartbeat of your code. Whether it’s a log, a telemetry signal, or a business event, they mark the moments when something interesting happens. But to unlock their full power for observability and data analysis, we need high-quality, structured, contextual data. Rails.logger is perfect for quick inspection, but it falls short in production and analytics contexts. At Shopify, after years of juggling in-house solutions, they built structured event support directly into Rails. Find Adrianna's slides here: https://speakerdeck.com/adriannachang... #RubyOnRails #RailsWorld #Shopify #Observability #eventreporter Thanks to Shopify for sponsoring editing and post-production. Explore more insights from their engineering team: https://shopify.engineering/ Subtitles available in Japanese, Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese — thanks to Happy Scribe, a transcription service built on Rails: https://www.happyscribe.com/