Captain’s Log, Stardate 2025.12: We’ve completed another orbit. The nacelles are glowing, the cloud bills are astronomical, and the spreadsheets are still trying to take over the bridge. It’s time for the 2025 Year-End Retrospective. For the developers, IT Directors,...
It's probably happened to most Rails devs working on an app of any scale - the app seems a little sluggish on certain screens and you see a bunch of these in your logs: <code>SELECT * FROM ... SELECT * FROM ......
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you know I have a bit of a mantra: keep it boring. We live in an era where "Modern Data Stack" usually translates to "six different SAAS subscriptions and a mortgage payment in cloud credits." Everyone wants a Data...
Walk into any modern engineering shop and you’ll hear the cultist chant: “we’re Cloud Native”. The term itself has become a kind of badge—containers, Kubernetes, microservices, serverless. The promise is resilience, agility, and scale without limits. It sounds like salvation from the bad old days of clunky servers and midnight pager duty.
For years, getting a solid Linux development environment meant engaging in the “configuration treadmill”—a never-ending process of tuning, installing, and debugging. Omakub provides a pre-configured solution for the most common developer stacks (Ruby, Python, Docker, C++) managed seamlessly by mise.
If you're the Acting Ensign Crusher of Rails developers, you've probably heard about background jobs but are a little lost. They're essential for building modern, responsive applications. But let's be honest, the thought of adding another service to your stack can be...
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