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Notes from the foundry.

Field notes from two decades of building software and companies.

EngineeringJanuary 31, 2025

When Third-Party APIs Go Rogue, Strategies for Building Bulletproof Integrations

Practical patterns to protect your app from flaky or failing external APIs, including timeouts, retries with backoff, hard rate limits, decoupling via interfaces, and durable background jobs.

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EngineeringAugust 20, 2020

Polymorphic Model Resource Finder in Ruby On Rails

Finding a polymorphic association in Rails model

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EngineeringAugust 14, 2020

Publishable Enum in Ruby on Rails with PostgreSQL

Add publishing ability to your Rails model

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EngineeringJanuary 5, 2019

The Ultimate Guide to Dokku and Ruby On Rails 5

Step by Step guide to deploy RoR to Dokku - Heroku alternative

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