Blogs
Why Podia doesn’t use review apps anymore | Jamie’s blog
It turns out the review apps are fundamentally incompatible with short-lived branches. We prefer to use feature flags.As a quick review (🥁🤣), Heroku has a feature that allows you to spin up a new “review app” for each git branch. This is useful wh...
[EN] How I upgraded my pet project from Rails 7 to Rails 8 in 30 minutes
I have a custom/ folder in my project where I keep files that I change instead of modifying generated files. The only change in generated files is customization loading. As a result when I need to upgrade a project I overwrite default files with b...
Supercharge the One Person Framework with SQLite | Fractaled Mind
From its beginning, Rails has been famous for being a kind of a rocket engine that could propel your idea to astronomic heights at supersonic speed. But, at least for me, it has lately felt like I needed to be a rocket scientist to then deploy and...
Next Generation Out of Band Garbage Collection | Rails at Scale
In 2023, I wrote about how we’ve tuned Ruby’s garbage collector for Shopify’s monolith, including how we implemented out-of-band garbage collection to reduce the impact of major collection on latency.
While the latency improvements were massive, ...