Upgrading Rails safely
Upgrades work best with tests and a plan: stage changes, run CI, deploy gradually, and keep rollback ready. We focus […]
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Incident response without chaos
Good incident response is mostly communication: confirm impact, assign an owner, share updates, and write a short post-incident note. Then
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Keeping a Rails app healthy: our weekly checklist
A simple weekly routine reduces incidents: review errors, update dependencies safely, keep backups tested, and ship small changes. We favour
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How we run discovery without wasting time
Discovery is short, structured, and outcome-driven: confirm goals, map constraints, identify unknowns, and propose a safe first slice.
Business
Building trust with weekly updates
A weekly update should show progress, risks, and next steps. If the client can’t see momentum, they won’t feel safe.
Engineering
Integrations: handling retries and idempotency
Assume network failure. Use idempotency keys, retry with backoff, and log correlation IDs so you can trace what happened.
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What good documentation looks like
Docs should answer: what it does, how to run it, how to deploy it, and where it breaks. Anything else
Engineering
CI/CD basics that prevent bad deploys
Automate tests, keep builds fast, ship small, and make rollback easy. CI/CD isn’t a luxury, it’s a seatbelt.
Business
How to choose a maintenance retainer
Pick a retainer that matches your risk tolerance: response times, patch cadence, and a visible backlog of ongoing improvements.
Engineering
Security hygiene for small teams
Automate dependency checks, patch regularly, use least-privilege access, and treat secrets like loaded weapons.