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Hosted by Rails Foundation, Robby Russell · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 18 episodes
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On Rails invites Rails developers to share real-world technical challenges and solutions, architectural decisions, and lessons learned while building with Rails. Through technical deep-dives and retrospectives with experienced engineers in the Rails community, we explore the strategies behind building and scaling Rails applications. Hosted by Robby Russell of Planet Argon and produced by the Rails Foundation.
Rails Foundation, Robby Russell hosts On Rails, a technology show with 18 episodes published.
In this episode of On Rails, Robby is joined by Aaron Patterson, better known online as Tenderlove , a senior staff engineer on Shopify ’s Ruby infrastructure team and a longtime contributor to both Ruby and Rails Core.
Robby is joined by Nikky Southerland , Lead Software Engineer at Shop-Ware — a cloud-based platform that helps independent automotive service shops run their businesses. Ruby on Rails has powered Shop-Ware since the firs
David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails and co-owner of 37signals , joins Robby Russell the same week 37signals shipped Basecamp 5 to talk through the shift reshaping how software actually gets built today: w
Tom Rossi, co-founder of Higher Pixels and the team behind Buzzsprout, joins Robby to talk about what it really looks like to stay "as Rails as possible", purely out of pragmatism. With over 472,000 podcasts on the platf
Jason Meller, founder of Kolide (acquired by 1Password in 2023) and now VP of Product at 1Password, joins Robby for a conversation about a career at the intersection of Rails, cybersecurity, and building. They dig into w
In this episode of On Rails, Robby is joined by Brian Scanlan , Senior Principal Engineer at Intercom , where a 15-year-old Rails monolith with millions of lines of code sits at the heart of the business. Brian shares ho
In this episode of On Rails, Robby is joined by Simone Carletti, CTO of DNSimple, where Rails has sat at the core of a globally distributed DNS platform since the company launched in 2010. Simone walks through how DNSimp
In this episode of On Rails, Robby is joined by Jay Tennier, Engineering Manager at Rainforest QA, where he's spent over seven years working across a long-lived Rails monolith and supporting services. They explore how Ra
In this episode of On Rails, Robby is joined by Kayla Reopelle, a lead software engineer at New Relic, where she works on both the Ruby Agent and OpenTelemetry RubyGems. They explore what observability means for Rails de
In this episode of On Rails, Robby is joined by Miguel Conde and Peter Compernolle from Gusto, where they work on a "biolith"—two distinct Rails monoliths serving 600+ engineers. Peter leads the HIPAA-compliant benefits
In this episode of On Rails, Robby is joined by Alexander Stathis, a Principal Software Engineer at AngelList, where Rails powers complex investment, accounting, and banking business logic across a modular monolith struc
In this episode of On Rails, Robby is joined by Florent Beaurain, a longtime Rails engineer at Doctolib, home to one of the largest Rails monoliths in Europe with over 3 million lines of code and 400+ engineers. They exp
In this episode of On Rails, Robby is joined by Hilary Stohs-Krause, a Senior Software Engineer at Red Canary. They explore how engineering teams approach everyday performance work, from small Active Record optimizations
In this episode of On Rails, Robby is joined by Ryan Stawarz and Austin Story from Doximity, where Ruby on Rails has powered the core of their platform for over 15 years. The trio digs into how a single Rails monolith ha
In this episode of On Rails, Nadia Odunayo, founder and solo developer of The StoryGraph, joins us to share what it really takes to build and maintain a Rails application used by over four million readers across web and
Jean Boussier, Senior Staff Engineer at Shopify and member of the Rails Core team, joins Robby to dig into the performance realities behind modern Rails apps. They explore what it means to be IO-bound or CPU-bound, how R
In this episode of ‘On Rails’, host Robby Russell (@planetargon) chats with Rosa Gutiérrez, Principal Programmer at 37signals, about the technical decisions behind Solid Queue - a database-backed job queue replacing Resq
Tom Rossi
vice president of executive search · Jackson Physician Search
1 appearance on this show
Hilary Stohs-Krause
Senior Software Engineer · Red Canary
1 appearance on this show
Jason Meller
Kolide
1 appearance on this show
Brian Scanlan
Intercom
1 appearance on this show
Simone Carletti
DNSimple
1 appearance on this show
Jay Tennier
Rainforest QA
1 appearance on this show
Kayla Reopelle
New Relic
1 appearance on this show
Miguel Conde
Gusto
1 appearance on this show
Alexander Stathis
AngelList
1 appearance on this show
Florent Beaurain
Doctolib
1 appearance on this show
Ryan Stawarz
Doximity
1 appearance on this show
Jean Boussier
Shopify
1 appearance on this show
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