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Observability is becoming a standard. Cloud observability providers deliver a high-end solutions for the storage and visualization of the telemetry data. Yet, application owners may consider an entirely in-house approach. Here is how you can achieve it for a Ruby on Rails app.

Learn how to authorize requests at the routing layer to improve security and ergonomics.

Over-communicating is key, over-reacting is not. It’s important to find the balance on when to respond to messages and when to keep still.

Comprehensive guide to automating Ruby on Rails web app deployments using Kamal and GitHub Actions. Includes installation guide and sample GitHub Actions configuration.

Learn how Kamal simplifies web app deployment with features like zero downtime, incremental rollouts, and flexible configuration. Ideal for developers.

I am writing this for the senior engineer or tech lead that is deciding whether to use Hotwire or a Frontend framework (e.g. React, Vue, Svelte …) for the frontend portion of the next Rails project. If this is you, read on. The key factor You have already gone over the usual list of factors that you consider for every new project no matter what tech stack it is on: the expertise of your team members, technologies used on existing projects at your company, available libraries or ready solutions. These are table stakes, you’ve considered them like you always do and for this project, they’re not pointing either way. I will make a case that, once those fundamental questions are cleared, there is one that is specific to this decision and stands above all others: How is the complexity of the project distributed between shared state management and visual interactions? Most of the cost of software is in maintenance and most of the cost of maintenance comes from the complexity of our solution. Picking a tech stack that is well suited for managing the kind of complexity you are facing will make it easier to keep the complexity under control. The point will become clearer once we consider the two extremes.

Rails comes with default BigInt IDs for your primary keys since version 5.1 (replacing regular Int) and offers UUID v4 as an supported alternative since version 6. But what are the alternatives and what to use in your next app?

Work on Rails 8 is starting, so I dug through the official GitHub milestone to break down all the upcoming goodies for you. There's plenty coming, including Solid Queue, Solid Cache and Kamal becoming defaults, better support for PWAs, an official LSP, and more!

Rails 7.1 added a validate option for enums, which will allow developers to validate the passed enum values before saving it.

Exploring new ways of approaching CSS by querying custom properties and their values.

Originally published on my blog: https://bogr.dev/blog/react-testing-intro/ This article assumes a...

In the previous post, How to deploy Rails with Kamal and SSL certificate on any VPS, we saw how to deploy a simple Rails application with Kamal and Docker. But it was intentionally very simple and even if it might be enough for some applications like…

Work on Rails 8 is starting, so I dug through the official GitHub milestone to break down all the upcoming goodies for you. There's plenty coming, including Solid Queue, Solid Cache and Kamal becoming defaults, better support for PWAs, an official LSP, and more!

Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.

Deploying an HA Postgres cluster using Zalando w/ K8s.

Welcome to the LinkedIn Developer Productivity and Happiness Framework!

Everything you ever wanted to know about Turbo 8's Page Refreshes, Morphing, and its design style

Can we deploy a Rails monolith with audience-based scaling without breaking it up?

Who knew grouping things could bring so many benefits.

Reliably automate custom domains at any scale

Imagine you’ve been tasked to implement a crucial new feature in the product you’re working on....

Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.

Need to do some HTML sanitization, but Rails ActionView Sanitize Helpers are not good enough? Read this post to learn how to do it with Loofah.

A look at the Postgres array type and good old join tables, each with their advantages and disadvantages.