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You see it all the time…in Rails codebases – developers frequently using the method name call to invoke an action.

As developers, we love pagination.

As Rails developers, we’re taught that code is the expensive part and that the database will mostly take care of itself, as long as you throw enough RAM, CPU, and indexes at it.

A long time ago, I made a call I thought was smart and scalable: using UUIDv4 as the primary key for alerting data.

Some recent conversations touched on building a culture of reliability.

Performance First Rails – Lessons From Production This post is a work in progress.

So, HTTPScout’s JavaScript bundle is 1.9MB.

I love the presenter pattern.

I use Docker.

Pre-pandemic DevOps was a strange place with stranger rules, rituals, and prayers.