Rails without Webpacker

We recently removed webpacker from our Rails 5 application. While it was a great…

SLO, SLA, SLI Oh My! Creating them can be easy

Imagine you are driving a car on a freeway. Your speedometer is telling you you…

Marketing Site Outage

Earlier today, we experienced an outage of our marketing site for 18 minutes. No…

Instrumenting Ruby on Rails with Prometheus

If you’re running a production application, you need metrics. There are great…

Flexible Ruby on Rails Reader Objects

Rails and ActiveRecord are great at providing a simple interface for retrieving…

Stay Informed with Kubernetes Informers

FireHydrant.io has a changelog feature with a Kubernetes integration. Building…

Understanding Istio Ingress

Istio is a hot technology right now. Giants such as Google and IBM have devoted…

Developer a Go app with Docker Compose

Writing Go applications in an isolated environment with Docker comes with some…

Developing a Ruby on Rails app with Docker Compose

Docker Compose is a great tool to develop your Ruby on Rails application locally…