Exploring Ruby, web development, Rails, AI, backend engineering, and frontend architecture.
Threads, fibers or forked processes? A practical comparison of Puma 8, Falcon 0.57 and Pitchfork 0.18 for Rails on Ruby 4, with configs and a decision by scenario.
Heroku is in maintenance mode and Rails 8 ships with Kamal out of the box. Here is how to decide between your own VPS and a managed platform, with a production-ready deploy.yml.
Rails 8 ships Solid Queue, Solid Cache and Solid Cable by default, but many teams still reach for Sidekiq, Redis and AnyCable. This post compares each pair with October 2026 versions and features, and gives a per-component decision table.
Solid Queue is the Rails 8 default and Sidekiq is the long-standing incumbent. Here is how they compare in late 2026, which Rails versions each one supports, and a decision guide for new and existing apps.
A web application's speed is not just the speed of the app server and the database. Between the browser and the SELECT there are seven places where the answer may already exist. This post walks through all of them, with the Rails configuration for each and what each one actually saves.