Deploying with Kamal on Akamai/Linode

Akamai Linode with Kamal

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

Rails 8 Multiple Databases on Heroku

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

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