Migration and upgrades: achieving near zero-downtime in PostgreSQL

This article explores techniques for achieving near zero-downtime during PostgreSQL migrations and upgrades

#database
Added: 31 Jul 2025
Making Postgres 42,000x slower because I am unemployed

As an respectable unemployed person must do, I tried to make Postgres as slow as possible

#database
Added: 31 Jul 2025
A handy use of subgrid to enhance a simple layout

subgrid in CSS is really handy for getting a nice level of design detail in place, especially in terms of maintaining a nice reading line, as Andy shows in this article.

#CSS
Added: 18 Jul 2025
How To Reduce The PWA Boilerplate Of You Rails App - The Miners

In this continuation of our PWA series, explore how to reduce the service worker boilerplate in your Rails app.

#Frontend#Ruby on Rails
Added: 18 Jul 2025
Async Ruby is the Future of AI Apps (And It’s Already Here)

How Ruby's async ecosystem transforms resource-intensive LLM applications into efficient, scalable systems - without rewriting your codebase.

#Ruby
Added: 15 Jul 2025
Hotwire components that refresh themselves

Using ViewComponents that know how to refresh themselves via turbo_streams is a powerful pattern to build complex flows with Hotwire

#Frontend#HOTWire#Ruby on Rails
Added: 7 Jul 2025
5 gems you no longer need with Rails

… and check why 5600+ Rails engineers read also this

#Ruby on Rails
Added: 2 Jul 2025
Making Rails delegated_type’s clearer - Kasper Timm Hansen

This past week, I was having a conversation with a reader and he brought up the example of Rails’ delegated_type. While I’ve never been a fan of the name, because...

#Ruby on Rails
Added: 1 Jul 2025
Prevent logging sensitive information in Rails, and beyond

The Rails defaults are a good foundation, but it’s still your responsibility to filter sensitive information from logs when using external APIs, services, and tools.

#Ruby on Rails
Added: 29 Jun 2025
Everyone Is Wrong About SQLite

Here's a spicy take: SQLite might be the best database choice for your next SaaS project. Yes,...

#database#Ruby on Rails
Added: 29 Jun 2025
Scaling Rails with PostgreSQL Read Replicas: Part 1 - Understanding the Basics

Learn when and why to use read replicas in Rails applications, understand the architecture, and implement basic read/write splitting with real-world exa...

#database#Ruby on Rails
Added: 26 Jun 2025
Versioning API requests

Learn how to handle API request versioning in Rails without duplicating controllers, using a schema-based approach that supports OpenAPI documentation and seamlessly maps external API structures to internal models.

#Ruby on Rails
Added: 26 Jun 2025
Making Tables Work with Turbo

Fixing the problems Turbo has when being used to add dynamism to tables in Rails.

#HOTWire#Ruby on Rails
Added: 26 Jun 2025
Exploiting LLM chatbots

It is becoming more and more common to use LLM chatbots for customer support and it is pretty easy to introduce security issues while implementing them. Here is a little story about such thing.

#AI
Added: 24 Jun 2025
Checklist: Is Your PostgreSQL Deployment Production-Grade? | Stormatics

This checklist can help you assess your current Postgres setup and identify steps that can enhance the robustness, security, and scalability of your PostgreSQL deployment.

#database
Added: 19 Jun 2025
Exploring Common AI Patterns with Ruby

Three examples of integrating LLMs in Ruby using OmniAI.

#AI#Ruby
Added: 11 Jun 2025
Table partitioning in Rails, part 2 - Postgres Stories - Blog - Visuality

How to handle table partitionaing for an already existing table which holds some (probably much) data. How to do table partitioning in Ruby on Rails.

#Backend#database
Added: 11 Jun 2025
Running multiple apps on a single server with Kamal 2

Kamal 2 finally brings the most requested feature to reality and allows people to run multiple applications simultaneously on a single server. Here’s how.

#DevOps#Ruby on Rails
Added: 6 Jun 2025
Generative-Ai at Custom AI Solutions

Articles about Generative-Ai in the Custom AI Solutions blog.

#AI#Ruby on Rails
Added: 4 Jun 2025
Building Offline-First React Native Apps with React Query and TypeScript | Whitespectre

Learn how to build offline-first React Native apps with React Query and TypeScript for a responsive and seamless user experience even without internet connectivity.

#Frontend#Typescript
Added: 4 Jun 2025
10 Modern CSS Features You Want to Use

CSS is evolving quickly and there many really cool new features that can help you craft beautiful web pages.

#CSS#Frontend
Added: 2 Jun 2025
Short alphanumeric pseudo random identifiers in Postgres

Introduction In this post, we’ll cover a way to generate short, alphanumeric, pseudo random identifiers using native Postgres tactics.

#Backend#database#Design
Added: 2 Jun 2025
Use CSS reading-flow for logical sequential focus navigation  |  Blog  |  Chrome for Developers

Learn how to use the new reading-flow and reading-order properties in Chrome 137.

#CSS#Frontend
Added: 2 Jun 2025
Documenting Your Rails API Shouldn’t Be Painful (Rails + OasRails) | Zuplo Blog

Learn how to generate OpenAPI documentation for your Rails API using OasRails.

#Ruby#Ruby on Rails
Added: 2 Jun 2025
You can style alt text like any other text

A fun little side quest to show you how applying styles to alt text can really elevate your user interface.

#CSS#Frontend#Javascript
Added: 2 Jun 2025
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