I put together the essentials to understand the deployment of web applications for software engineers. Sleep better knowing that your servers are safe and customer data backed up. Be prepared to fix issues when they come for you.
How to move from Marshal to the new Rails 7 default JSON serializer.
The ViewComponent library from GitHub is becoming a popular answer to building design systems in server-rendered Rails applications. Let’s understand the basics by creating a fancy component button.
Lots of developers choose between dockerizing their development setup or leaving it as is. There is also a viable hybrid approach in combining Docker Compose with native processes.
Writing system tests can be sometimes tricky because we want to assert a reality that’s not yet rendered. Ad-hoc sleeping is something that can mostly address the problem, but it’s not the most elegant solution and should be avoided if possible.
A breakdown of selling 640 copies of my first product Deployment from Scratch.