Hiring is Not Hazing
Discover effective tech hiring practices, including inclusive assessment methods, crafting great interview questions, and improving your company's recruitment process.
What Poetry Workshops Teach Us about Code Review
Explore how poetry workshop techniques can enhance code review, fostering better communication, team cohesion, and more effective software development practices.
The Realities of Running a Rails App Long Term
Explore the evolution of a Rails app over a decade, covering design choices, testing, integrations, and challenges faced in long-term development and maintenance.
The Trail to Scale Without Fail - Rails
Explore creative solutions for handling high-traffic web applications, using Cloudinary as a case study. Learn strategies to manage load fluctuations and ensure system stability at scale.
Effective Data Synchronization between Rails Microservices
Explore an elegant system for maintaining data consistency across microservices, enabling independent data loading through rich domain models while honoring Rails callbacks and ensuring stack-wide consistency.
Self-Care on Rails
Discover how Rails apps helped children cope during the pandemic, offering insights into tech-driven solutions for challenging times.
Debugging - Techniques for Uncertain Times
Techniques for effective debugging and navigating uncertainty, applicable to both code and life. Learn strategies to stay calm and move forward safely when facing the unknown.
Realtime Apps with Hotwire & ActionMailbox
Build a realtime customer support app using Hotwire for updates and ActionMailbox for inbound emails, with minimal JavaScript in Rails.
The Rising Storm of Ethics in Open Source
Exploring the ethical challenges in open source software and potential solutions, including procrastination, assimilation, or revolution, as the community faces a critical juncture.
Processing Data at Scale with Rails
Strategies for handling large datasets using Rails, covering data ingestion, transformation, and storage with tools like ActiveRecord, Sidekiq, and Postgres.
Turning DevOps Inside-Out
Discover strategies to enhance feature velocity by focusing on customer feedback and incorporating it into your development lifecycle, with Rails-specific tips and tools.
Talmudic Gems for Rails Developers
Explore ethical responsibilities in software development through ancient Talmudic wisdom and modern examples, emphasizing mentorship, community, and the impact of our code on the world.
What the Fork?
Explore Unix fork() system call, its role in Rails development/production, and techniques for optimizing memory usage and parallel processing in Ruby applications.
Frontendless Rails Frontend
Explore modern "frontend" Rails development using ViewComponent, StimulusReflex, and Hotwire. Learn to create sophisticated interfaces without relying on traditional frontend frameworks.
The Cost of Data
Explore the physical impact of data storage and creation, examining the challenges and advancements in data centers, and learn how our code affects the real world.
The Curious Case of the Bad Clone
Explore a debugging journey through Sorbet, Rails, and Ruby codebases, uncovering tools and tricks for solving performance issues while delving into Ruby's nuances.
What is Developer Empathy?
Explore strategies for fostering empathy in dev teams, promoting psychological safety, and creating equitable practices that enhance learning and collaboration across all levels.
Scaling Rails API to Write-Heavy Traffic
Practical techniques for scaling Rails API to handle millions of database transactions per minute, focusing on multiple databases and sharding for write-heavy traffic in mobile gaming.
Growing Software From Seed
Explore methodical approaches to debugging and cultivating software through daily observation, drawing parallels with gardening practices to uncover hidden signals and foster organic growth.
How to Get a Project Unstuck
Learn strategies to revive stalled open source projects, including coordination, leadership, and practical steps for short and long-term success. Gain insights from case studies and principles for effective project revival.
All You Need to Know to Build Dynamic Forms - JS Free
Discover how to create dynamic forms in Rails using ActiveModel's API and Form Objects pattern, enhanced with Hotwire for advanced features—all without JavaScript.