Hilary Stohs-Krause: Scaling Rails with Small Wins
From On Rails by Rails Foundation, Robby Russell
September 1, 2025 · 1h 28m · Season 1 · Episode 5
About this episode
Robby Russell interviews Hilary Stohs-Krause about performance work in engineering teams and their transition from React to Rails' Hotwire stack.
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 approach everyday performance work, from small Active Record optimizations to larger architectural decisions. Hilary shares insights from Red Canary's journey switching from React to Rails' native Hotwire stack, how her team tackled flaky test failures that were slowing down continuous deployments, and some strong opinions about custom linters. 🧰 ...
People in this episode
Host: Robby Russell
Guest: Hilary Stohs-Krause
Topics covered
- performance optimization
- software engineering
- Rails
- Hotwire
- continuous deployment
- testing
Keywords
- Rails
- Hotwire
- Active Record
- performance
- continuous deployment
- testing
- software engineering
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Red Canary
Products: Hotwire, Active Record
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