– Motivation for using Ruby on Rails (and yes Rails does scale!)

– Using interactors and Action Cable with StimulusReflex

– Things to think about for using Hotwire Turbo Streams vs other solutions

– Action Cable is embedded into the main web server

– The workflow gem and how payments are handled with Stripe and PayPal

– Recently upgrading to Sidekiq Enterprise and also using flipper for feature flags

– Using Knapsack Pro to help speed up tests in CI

– Code to test radio is about 1 to 1.5 and there’s about 38k lines of non-test code

– Examples of when they’re using Sidekiq’s batching feature

– Mostly using the asset pipeline but also using Webpacker and using StimulusJS

– Most developers at Podia touch most areas of the code base

– The run down on how the site editor works and using Trix plus Active Storage

– It’s 2021 and uploads still aren’t a fully solved problem

– Handling bulk video uploads from Podia to Wistia

– PostgreSQL is the main database, Docker isn’t being used and on-boarding new devs

– How they’re using Caddy and Let’s Encrypt to link custom domains to customers

– Using Postmark for transactional emails and SparkPost for email campaigns

– Full text search with PostgreSQL and building the Podia admin dashboard

– It’s hosted on Heroku and they use the Rails Autoscale add-on

– Surviving Black Friday without any problems

– The end to end process and time to deploy code from development to production

– Gems and strategies to help run database migrations at scale

– Using Diffend to audit gems and switching from Heroku’s scheduler to Sidekiq

– The DB is backed up on Heroku’s schedule and everything else is backed up too

– Avoiding tons of third party API calls by storing certain things locally

– Their payment code builds upon the official Ruby SDKs from Stripe and PayPal

– Using Uptime Robot, Cronitor, OpsGenie and Slack for monitoring and alerts

– Best tips? Build a friendly team of co-workers and automate as much as you can

– You can find Jason on Twitter at @jmcharnes