We migrated our ~2,800 RPS app from Heroku to Render. The migration was seamless, but the overall deployment experience just doesn’t hold up. Here’s what we learned. judoscale.com/blog/judosc...

Judoscale on Tour: Render Has the Pieces, Not the Workflow

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Render made it SO EASY to connect logs and metrics to a third-party observability tool. Railway, as far as I can tell, doesn't support either. 😞 What am I missing?

Do you know someone new to the Ruby community that wants to attend RubyConf in July? I have an extra ticket to donate. DM me.

Render might not be a great option for high-traffic apps using a separate hosted DB. (This is from our own prod app)

Went to Blue Ridge Ruby last week with Jon Sully. He blogged his thoughts, and I co-sign all of it. I love these small regional confs so much! judoscale.com/blog/blue-r...

Blue Ridge Ruby: A Couple of Reflections

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We REALLY want to know what's going on at Heroku ...so we wrote them a letter 🤷‍♂️

Who is doing really great in-app contextual help? I want... - Contextual: If I'm confused about a UI element, the help is right there. - Non-intrusive: When I don't need the help, it doesn't clutter the UI. - Obvious: I don't have to dig for it Not sure how to balance the last two.

Heroku is doubling down on the "sustaining engineering" language and it really bothers me. For most devs, "sustaining engineering" == "maintenance mode" If they don't want customers to think they're in maintenance mode, they need clearer language.

What's happening at Heroku, and what does it mean for your team? judoscale.com/blog/heroku...

Heroku: What’s Next

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How common is it these days for teams to have a staging environment, versus auto-deploying main to prod?

Thoughts on env vars as I spend some time with Fly... I actually like that Fly separates env vars and secrets as distinct concepts. Confused me at first, but it makes sense. Secrets get extra protection, env vars are for config. Good semantic separation.

I love how Northflank's pricing page lets you choose the timeframe for the metered pricing. All metered pricing should have this.

I just updated our PaaS Pricing Comparison Calculator: - Added Amazon ECS Fargate - Updated pricing for Railway - Factored CPU time-slicing for Fly shared machines Heroku still stands out as the most expensive, but the others are very competitive!

Idea: The Judoscale Platform Tour... We deploy our 3,000+ RPS Rails app across each of the fully-managed hosting platforms and write up our experience in detail. Things I'd want to cover: - cost - perf - DX/vibes - review apps - setup - env/secrets - scaling What else would you want to see?

Everyone is freaking out the Heroku blog post. Take a breath. There's no way Heroku shuts down anytime soon. The post confirms they won't be making improvements... how is that any different from the last decade? Migrate eventually, but take your time. You literally have YEARS.

If you're thinking of leaving Heroku, here's a simple mapping: If you want the easiest switch, go with Render. If you want Docker and more flexibility, go with Fly. If you want to be a sysadmin, use a VPS (don't need to scale) or Amazon ECS (do need to scale)

Something a bit different on the Judoscale blog—Jon Sully interviewed ME to get my thoughts on hosting in 2026. Really happy how this turned out! judoscale.com/blog/black-...

Black Box Hosting vs. Glass Box Hosting: An Interview With Judoscale's Adam

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Two identical production apps running in parallel—or as Jon calls it, "scaling sideways"... just little technique we use to efficiently scale. judoscale.com/blog/scalin...

Scaling Sideways: Why You Might Want To Run Two Production Apps

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On @searls.bsky.social latest podcast he mentioned "Heroku" and "price", so I can't help but respond. I made the post public since I think it's a really useful pattern. tldr: Got a high-memory job that pushes you to perf dynos? Isolate it and scale to zero.

Nearly 10 years (!!) of autoscaling, some patterns never change: noisy neighbors, too many queues, scaling workers to zero (and saving 💰), and the chaos of downscaling too far. Stability is boring, repeatable choices. Here's what we've learned 👉 judoscale.com/blog/autosc...

On the latest episode of The Ruby Gems podcast, @adamlogic.com from @judoscale.com joins Marty Haught and I to discuss how to turned a side project into a full-time business. Give it a listen! www.buzzsprout.com/2509083/epis...

Adam McCrea: Judoscale - The Ruby Gems Podcast

Adam McCrea shares how he turned a side project into JudoScale, a Ruby-focused auto-scaler now powering thousands of apps.  We discuss his origins in the Ruby community, how he (mostly) bootstrap...

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If I was responsible enough to do any sort of ROI calculation, this never would have happened. Instead, we went all-in on RailsConf with 15 homemade videos and a custom local-only app to run our booth. I'd do it all over again.

I love my job

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"We didn’t sponsor RailsConf to try to sell Judoscale or win customers..." And yet this will both sell @judoscale.com and win them customers! They have an AWESOME product and they are present in the community for the sheer love of it. Be more like Judoscale. judoscale.com/blog/rails-o...

As requested by absolutely no one, a supercut of every kazoo clip we made for #railsconf2025

Really hope we don’t get kicked out of the last #railsconf for bringing kazoos 🎶

Visit our booth at #railsconf to get your kazoo! Watching us make fools of ourselves is just a bonus.

Who’s ready to party? #railsconf #kazoos

If it’s not at least a little bit cringe, we didn’t go far enough. #railsconf #kazoos #marketing

Marketing technique #77: Humiliate yourself for attention. #railsconf #kazoos

Y’all this is only the beginning. Buckle up! #railsconf #kazoos