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Episode Synopsis
In this episode, host Jared Norman and SuperGood teammates and guests Mat Harvard, Sofia Besenski, Noah Silvera, and Chris Todorov recap their experiences at Rails World 2024. They discuss the unique venue in Toronto, key takeaways from David Heinemeier Hansson's keynote on making Rails more accessible, and the shift towards on-prem solutions over services like Heroku. The panel highlights technical talks on scaling Postgres, Shopify’s automated Rails upgrade process, and debates on Kamal 2.0’s proxy features. They also explore Rails’ future direction, technical debt management, and the Rails boot process.Links:Rails WorldHerokuAWS EC2Kamal 2.0PostgreSQLRailsTest DoubleHotwireRuby on RailsPrismLet’s EncryptDead Code Podcast Links:MastodonXJared’s Links:MastodonXEpisode Transcript Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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