Nadia Odunayo & Scaling Rails for Millions of Users as a Solo Dev
From On Rails by Rails Foundation, Robby Russell
July 28, 2025 · 54 min · Season 1 · Episode 3
About this episode
Nadia Odunayo discusses building and maintaining a Rails application for millions of users.
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 a Rails application used by over four million readers across web and mobile. We discuss lessons from launching a PWA, shifting to Turbo Native for cross-platform support, and navigating challenges like in-app purchases and data syncing between systems. Nadia also talks about the bold decision to move from Heroku to YugabyteDB to support growing...
People in this episode
Host: Robby Russell
Guest: Nadia Odunayo
Topics covered
- Rails application
- scaling
- PWA
- Turbo Native
- in-app purchases
- data syncing
Keywords
- Rails
- The StoryGraph
- PWA
- Turbo Native
- Heroku
- YugabyteDB
- data syncing
- in-app purchases
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: The StoryGraph, Heroku, YugabyteDB
Places: web, mobile
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