Adam McCrea

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...

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...

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...

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

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-...

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...

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...

I love my job

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

One week until #railsconf! The whole Judoscale team will be there with... kazoos?

🔌 Big news! Custom platform integrations coming soon to Judoscale! Create your own adapter, keep your infrastructure, get all the autoscaling magic. Message me if you want early access. What platform would you connect with?

If you have more than one worker process sitting idle while the job queue is empty, you're throwing away money. And for queues with an SLO > 30 seconds, that number drops to zero.

"Does Rails 8 truly make platforms a thing of the past? And can small to medium-sized teams really save money by self-hosting?" Preech it, Jeff! From the Honeybadger blog: www.honeybadger.io/blog/rails-...

Feeling very thankful today as Carlos Antonio and I celebrate his one year anniversary at Judoscale. 🥳 Carlos helps me level-up as a developer and feel more relaxed and confident as a founder. And with him Judoscale is a better product than ever. Thanks, Carlos! 🥂