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Post · Deployment
Twenty Small Reasons That Deploying a Rails App Is Hard
Deployment is not one big problem. It is twenty small ones, each individually manageable but collectively capable of eating a weekend. A working catalogue of the friction points that trip up Rails developers moving from development to production.
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Post · Reflection
2014 Year in Review
A year of Ruby engineering work, side projects, writing about software and the business of maintaining a technical publication. What shipped, what didn't, and what the numbers actually looked like.
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