🤖 Judoscale News: Autoscale and Chill? 👀 (September 2024)
Greetings Judoscalers 👋!
It’s time again for another issue of Judoscale News! And we’ve got quite a bit to cover — so much so that we’re going to start including a handy little table-of-contents here for you. Let’s dive in!
- 🆕The Ninja Has a Name!
- 🛠️ Log Them Changes
- 📝 The Post-JAMstack Era...
- 🎥 Adam on the Big Screen
- 📝 Say No to Partials and Helpers?
- 📝...How Bad Can it Get??
- 📝 Rails’ Puma Config Change
- 👀 Autoscale and Chill
🆕 The Ninja Has a Name!
We solicited input from all of you (thank you!) on what we should name our little ninja friend that’s part of our new branding:
And we finally have a name! Otto, the Autoscaling Ninja. A fun little play on words (“Otto” == “Auto”) and a great suggestion from a friend of Judoscale. Just remember, Otto’s always watching...
...your autoscaling 😉
🛠️ Log Them Changes
We’re excited to show off that Judoscale now has an official(™️) changelog system. While we’ll definitely still be talking about features and things here in this newsletter, if you’re interested in finer-grain details, we’d recommend you check it out! We consider it our source-of-truth for platform changes over time from here on out.
You can find it at changelog.judoscale.com:
In addition, since we’re using Headway (highly recommend!), we also have a convenient little widget that will display in Judoscale’s own dashboard. You’ll find it un-annoyingly at the bottom right corner of the window, ready to inform you about any new changes we’ve released:
📝 The Post-JAMstack Era...
We released a spicy new article this week! And it’s been received with more positive energy than we thought it might be, honestly. We’re not usually a team of hot-take folks, and maybe it’s less of a hot take since most of the readers are already Rails developers, but nonetheless! We think you’ll enjoy giving this a read and letting go of some old mindsets 😁
Check it out here:
And also...
🎥 Adam on the Big Screen
While the Post-JAMstack article above covers a lot of the why behind the switch, Adam recorded and released a video covering a ton of the how! Given that our previous site was built on NextJS — broken down into hundreds of little React components and Javascript bits — seamlessly converting all of that into Rails without breaking our styling was a real challenge. Adam to the rescue!
Give it a watch on Youtube here:
📝 Say No to Partials and Helpers?
While we’re on a roll with hot-takes, how about running a Rails app and not using view partials or helper modules at all? If that feels like a wild suggestion or uncomfortable for you (and believe me, it still does for me), then this article is for you! We’ve been on the Phlex train for a little while now and Adam wanted to take a stand for how it can really help app organization. It’s more than a template system; it’s an organization boon.
Learn more right here:
📝 ...How Bad Can it Get??
...with shared hardware, that is! There’s been some chatter in the quiet corners of the Heroku performance world the last few months. Between some eyebrow-raising implications made by Heroku itself and some of our continued research, we’re discovering some really interesting findings with Heroku’s shared-hardware options (e.g. Standard-1x and Standard-2x). If that sounds vague, it’s because a lot of it is! But we do have some specifics to say.
Find out how bad it can get here:
📝 Rails’ Puma Config Change
We wanted to share one more article with you all this month: a discussion around why Rails changed the default Puma config and how that impacts Puma’s operations in the first place. Trying to talk through the impacts of multi-threading in a web-server context is tricky, so we took a visualization-heavy approach to try to make it clearer to understand.
Give it a look right here:
That’ll do it for this month’s edition! Plenty of interesting topics fresh off the presses. We hope you all have a great rest of your September and enjoy the leaves beginning to change (in the Midwest USA, at least)! Can you believe we’re already 75% of the way through 2024??
Cheers!
— Jon & The Judoscale Team
P.S. Autoscale and Chill!?
Rails world is next week! Carlos and Adam will be there, both excited to meet all of you! We’ll be repping our new T-shirts, carrying our new favorite moniker: Autoscale and Chill. (And yes, I (Jon) forced Adam into this posed shot 😂):
Is it a play on a common meme about a certain video streaming service? Yes! Is it also true that when you autoscale your life is more chill? Yes!
So if you see us at Rails World, say hello! We might just have a few shirts to give away to those that would also like to Autoscale and Chill — no funny poses required 😏. And, I can confirm, they are quite comfy 😌