There’s a version of platform strategy that looks beautifully simple on a whiteboard. You pick a PaaS everyone trusts, pay the monthly bill, ship code, and sleep at night. Then one day the vendor quietly shifts focus to “sustainability engineering” and you realize the platform isn’t getting the love it used to. Sound familiar? That’s … Read more
There is a version of self-hosting that looks beautifully simple on a whiteboard. You rent a VPS and build a container, point DNS at the host, run your Kamal build and deploy, and you get an easy-to-deploy clean HTTPS site with almost no drama. And honestly, that is not a fantasy (if you don’t make … Read more
Modern ML engineers and platform developers know that scaling machine learning workloads isn’t a matter of just adding GPUs. Optimizing ML system performance requires orchestrating compute, storage, and data pipelines to maximal efficiency under production constraints. As models grow more complex, what once was processed within a single rack now requires distributed GPU clusters, shared … Read more
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