On Rails
Episodes
Brian Scanlan: Building AI-First at Intercom
22 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of On Rails, Robby is joined by Brian Scanlan, Senior Principal Engineer at Intercom, where a 15-year-old Rails monolith with millions...
Simone Carletti: Rails at the Center of DNSimple
13 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of On Rails, Robby is joined by Simone Carletti, CTO of DNSimple, where Rails has sat at the core of a globally distributed DNS platfo...
Jay Tennier: How Testing Platform Rainforest QA Tests Itself
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of On Rails, Robby is joined by Jay Tennier, Engineering Manager at Rainforest QA, where he's spent over seven years working acro...
Kayla Reopelle: What Your Rails App Is Trying To Tell You
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of On Rails, Robby is joined by Kayla Reopelle, a lead software engineer at New Relic, where she works on both the Ruby Agent and Open...
Miguel Conde & Peter Compernolle: Inside Gusto’s Rails Biolith
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of On Rails, Robby is joined by Miguel Conde and Peter Compernolle from Gusto, where they work on a "biolith"—two distinct...
Alexander Stathis: Scaling a Modular Rails Monolith at AngelList
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of On Rails, Robby is joined by Alexander Stathis, a Principal Software Engineer at AngelList, where Rails powers complex investment, ...
Florent Beaurain: Optimizing Rails Tests at Doctolib Scale
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of On Rails, Robby is joined by Florent Beaurain, a longtime Rails engineer at Doctolib, home to one of the largest Rails monoliths in...
Hilary Stohs-Krause: Scaling Rails with Small Wins
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of On Rails, Robby is joined by Hilary Stohs-Krause, a Senior Software Engineer at Red Canary. They explore how engineering teams appr...
Ryan Stawarz & Austin Story: Inside Doximity’s 15-Year Rails Monolith
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of On Rails, Robby is joined by Ryan Stawarz and Austin Story from Doximity, where Ruby on Rails has powered the core of their platfor...
Nadia Odunayo & Scaling Rails for Millions of Users as a Solo Dev
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of On Rails, Nadia Odunayo, founder and solo developer of The StoryGraph, joins us to share what it really takes to build and maintain...
Jean Boussier & IO-Bound Misconceptions
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jean Boussier, Senior Staff Engineer at Shopify and member of the Rails Core team, joins Robby to dig into the performance realities behind modern Rai...
Rosa Gutiérrez & Solid Queue
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ‘On Rails’, host Robby Russell (@planetargon) chats with Rosa Gutiérrez, Principal Programmer at 37signals, about the technica...