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Rails profiling story, or how I caught Faker trying to teach my app Australian Slang
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Martian Kubernetes Kit: unboxing our toolkit's technical secrets
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Taking off the Heroku training wheels: the Rails preflight checklist
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Reusable development containers with Docker Compose and Dip
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Startups on Rails in 2024: my keynote at RailsConf
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Cables vs. malloc_trim, or yet another Ruby memory usage benchmark
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Kubing Rails: stressless Kubernetes deployments with Kuby
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Introducing JavaScript and TypeScript client for AnyCable
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5 tips for dealing with heavy ActiveRecord dashboards in Rails
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Rails, hacking, and Stripe as a scoreboard: Marc Köhlbrugge’s playbook
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Martian Kubernetes Kit: running apps—and running them well
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Fullstaq Ruby: First impressions, and how to migrate your Docker/Kubernetes Ruby apps today
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Real-time magic, no elixirs: optimizing Sera with AnyCable
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Web Summit 2022: what you missed and how to be ready for next year
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WebSocket Director: scenario-based integration tests for realtime apps
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Successful balance: gracefully and tactfully raising a dev tool price
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imgproxy goes solo: unveiling a bold future for this new company
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Making a custom logger for Rails query optimization
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Creating a winning sales flow with authentic writing from engineers
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RubyKaigi 2022: a report from an Evil Martian in Japan
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Big on Heroku: Scaling Fountain without losing a drop
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Blend to my will! Fonts on cylinder objects in Blender
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Deploying Ruby apps to Google Cloud Kubernetes Engine continuously with CircleCI
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The sword is yours: transferring projects to another team unscathed
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Smartly contracted: UI design and frontend for Certora
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Sorbetting a gem, or the story of the first adoption
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Attention: An Important Brand Update From The Evil Martians Blog
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The SDK Imperative: why developer tools live or die by their SDKs
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Next-level docs with Next.js: Teleport’s new customer acquisition channel
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Desktop frontier: Video app optimization for Lowkey
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Reporting non-nullable violations in graphql-ruby properly
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How to cultivate capital: 6 tips from developer tools founders and VCs
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Power for Kadenze: More performance, less cloud costs
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My Ruby 2018: Around the world in nine conferences
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Apollo launch: Building a migration architecture for 2U
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Painless migration of existing Helm’s Tiller setup to Kubernetes Secrets
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Social background: Martians behind eBay Social's tech
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