Blogs



The First Chapter: A Year of Selling Ebooks on Gumroad and Other Platforms - DEV Community
Embarking on a journey to share knowledge and expertise in the realm of programming interviews, I launched my Gumroad shop a year ago. Focused on three major programming languages - Ruby, JavaScript, and Python - I introduced a collection of insig...



How (and why) to run SQLite in production | Fractaled Mind
Let me start by introducing myself. My name is Stephen, and you can find me on Twitter (no, I will not call it X) at fractaledmind. I am an American who moved to Berlin Germany 5 years ago, and in only a few more weeks I get to marry my fiancé, wh...

Rails GitHub Insights: Navigating the Active Pulse of Ruby on Rails
The GitHub repository for Ruby on Rails serves as the heartbeat of the framework's development. The pulse is strong, with a constant flow of pull requests and merges reflecting the active and vibrant nature of the Rails community.Ruby on Rails, th...

Horizontally scaling the Rails backend of Shop app with Vitess (2024)
We experienced hockey stick growth after we launched the Shop app. We were glued to our dashboards and saw millions of users onboard onto the app. This was gratifying, but we were becoming more nervous as our backend was pushed closer to its limit...
