Rails 8 introduced support for multiple databases, and by default, it wants to create separate database instances for your primary data, cache, queue, and ActionCable connections. If you’re deploying to Heroku and you just follow the defaults, you’ll end up with four separate Postgres databases, which means four separate billable databases instances. I’m using a … Read more
So, I broke production today. Not in a small way either. I’m writing this because if you’re running Rails 8 with SolidQueue on Heroku, you might run into the same thing, and I’d rather you learn from my mistake than make it yourself. The Setup I’ve been working on a Rails 8 app that uses SolidQueue for … Read more
Every machine learning engineer eventually encounters this challenge: a model that performs perfectly in a notebook often fails in production. The problem isn’t the algorithm itself; it’s everything surrounding it. In a lab environment, data is clean, schemas are consistent, and dependencies remain stable. However, in a production environment, data changes daily, infrastructure evolves, and … Read more
I’m a longtime operations person who picked up coding to better back my developers. Everyone told me Python was the only path for AI, but I saw real potential in Ruby on Rails. I used Rails 8.0.2 and wanted to weave in an integration with OpenAI. Picking OpenAI was simply a requirements match of needing … Read more