Rails Business
Brendan Buckingham and Ryan Frisch talk about developing with Ruby on Rails and how to leverage it to build a business.
Rails Business
Latest Episodes
Ernesto Tagwerker
Ernesto Tagwerker (FastRuby.io / OmbuLabs) returns to talk through how AI is reshaping both sides of his business — speeding up Rails upgrades while simultaneously eating into revenue, and opening a new lane in AI strategy consulting for non-te...
Colleen Schnettler and Joe Masilotti
Colleen Schnettler and Joe Masilotti (Permission Not Required podcast) join Ryan and Brendan to catch up on what they're each building. Joe walks through Ruby Native — his platform for getting Rails apps i...
Rolling Your Own APM with Claude: Real Wins, Real Tradeoffs
Ryan and Brendan talk through the growing pains of AI-assisted development — including fatigue, increased confidence in bigger code changes, and what happens when you stop paying for expensive APM tools and just build your own. Ryan walks throu...
Scott Werner Returns
Scott Werner (Sublayer) returns to discuss how rapidly AI and agentic coding have is changing. The hosts and Scott dig into why niche tools are increasingly getting replicated by developers and hobbyists with "good enough" custom solution...
Is Data the Moat for Your Business?
The hosts explore whether “data is the new moat” in SaaS and argues that data alone—especially customer data—is rarely defensible as extraction and migration get easier. Instead, moats increasingly come from clear product vision, differentiated...
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