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The Ruby Unbundled Series: Why You Should Check Out Hotwire Now

on April 18, 2021 | By Darren Broemmer
Hotwire truly is a game changer for Ruby on Rails web application development. Here's why. Photo by Erik Mcleanon Unsplash
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Application Load Balancer

on December 11, 2017 | By Christopher Rigor
Engine Yard announces support for Application Load Balancing. This new feature gives you the option to choose between a Classic Load Balancer and an Application Load Balancer.
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MySQL Replication Tutorial For Disaster Recovery

on November 16, 2017 | By Christopher Rigor
This blog post is a step by step tutorial on how to set up MySQL Replication between AWS regions. This is an essential part of our disaster recovery plan at Engine Yard. A previous blog post gives a higher level overview on disaster recovery.
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Disaster Recovery Plan for Rails Apps

on October 24, 2017 | By Christopher Rigor
This is part of a series on preparing your Rails application for Black Friday. This disaster recovery plan is useful for sites that need to recover quickly when an entire AWS region goes down.
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Dependency Management Guidelines for Rails Teams

on October 5, 2017 | By Brandon Dees
I recently encountered a discussion in a developer chatroom about how to find good ruby gems to use for projects, and how to choose between them. The (currently-defunct, hopefully only temporarily) website ruby-toolbox.com was mentioned, as well as awesome-ruby.com,...
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Understanding Rack Apps and Middleware

on August 23, 2017 | By Ben Lewis
Many web developers work on the highest levels of abstraction when we program. And sometimes it’s easy to take things for granted. Especially when we’re using Rails. Have you ever dug into the internals of how the request/response cycle works in Rails? I recently...
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