This posts describes how to reduce the size of images uploaded with ActiveStorage significantly by combining a few optimisations.

Chargebee is an awesome subscription management and recurring billing product. In this post I will show how I have integrated it with my Rails SaaS DynaBlogger.

In this post, I'll share how I have configured my Rails app and Nginx to use Redis as cache for much faster delivery of pages that do not require authentication nor user-customised content.

Since I started using Docker and Kubernetes for my apps, I have been trying to optimise the way m...

Update: Hetzner Cloud now offers load balancers, so this is no longer required. Check their web...

When I need a database I usually reach out for MySQL, since I have been using it for a while and ...

In this post, we’ll see how to deploy Kubernetes to Hetzner Cloud using a node driver for Rancher. By default, when using this node driver Rancher doesn’t set up any firewall, leaving etcd exposed. Here’s how to fix that while still taking advantage of the convenience of the node driver.

Back in August I published a simple comparison between a few storage solutions for Kubernetes, ou...

These days I’m using the open source version of haproxy as ingress controller for Kubernetes over...

I have started to use Active Storage, and so far I like a lot how quick and easy it is to set it ...

In the previous post, I have shared how to completely automate the set up of Kubernetes clusters ...

In this post I would like to share how I currently set up my Kubernetes clusters. I use Hetzner C...

A few days ago I got access to Github Actions beta, and since I had to set up CI/CD for the app I...

I don’t know about you, but I find it really annoying when I see lots and lots of entries in the ...

This is a super quick post. One of the most annoying things about system tests (at least for me),...