On Rails
Rails Foundation, Robby RussellOn Rails invites Rails developers to share real-world technical challenges and solutions, architectural decisions, and lessons learned while building with Rails. Through technical deep-dives and retrospectives with experienced engineers in the Rails community, we explore the strategies behind building and scaling Rails applications.
Hosted by Robby Russell of Planet Argon and produced by the Rail... more
| Publishes | Twice monthly | Episodes | 12 | Founded | 10 months ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Category | Technology | |||
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In this episode of On Rails, Robby is joined by Brian Scanlan, Senior Principal Engineer at Intercom, where a 15-year-old Rails monolith with millions of lines of code sits at the heart of the business.
Brian shares how Intercom's philosophy of bein... more
In this episode of On Rails, Robby is joined by Simone Carletti, CTO of DNSimple, where Rails has sat at the core of a globally distributed DNS platform since the company launched in 2010. Simone walks through how DNSimple's infrastructure is organiz... more
In this episode of On Rails, Robby is joined by Jay Tennier, Engineering Manager at Rainforest QA, where he's spent over seven years working across a long-lived Rails monolith and supporting services. They explore how Rainforest maintains their platf... more
In this episode of On Rails, Robby is joined by Kayla Reopelle, a lead software engineer at New Relic, where she works on both the Ruby Agent and OpenTelemetry RubyGems. They explore what observability means for Rails developers—not just as a debuggi... more
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What is On Rails about and what kind of topics does it cover?
The collection of episodes centers on practical Rails engineering, with deep dives into building and scaling Rails applications, managing large monoliths, and optimizing performance and testing. Guests come from major tech teams and product platforms, offering hands-on lessons about architecture choices (monoliths vs. microservices, modular engines), observability, testing strategies, database considerations, and modern tooling (GraphQL, Sorbet, Packwerk, OpenTelemetry). Across conversations, the emphasis is on pragmatic trade-offs, maintaining velocity in growing codebases, and fostering healthy engineering cultures in teams of varying sizes. The show stands out for its focus on real-world constraints—HIPAA compliance, large test suites, l... more
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2. Kayla Reopelle
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