Tom Rossi: Staying as Rails as Possible
From On Rails by Rails Foundation, Robby Russell
May 15, 2026 · 1h 11m · Season 2 · Episode 4
About this episode
Tom Rossi discusses the benefits of sticking to vanilla Rails for Buzzsprout's success.
Tom Rossi, co-founder of Higher Pixels and the team behind Buzzsprout, joins Robby to talk about what it really looks like to stay "as Rails as possible", purely out of pragmatism. With over 472,000 podcasts on the platform and a team of fewer than ten people, Tom explains how sticking to vanilla Rails has been the foundation of Buzzsprout's ability to move fast, stay lean, and keep up with a rapidly evolving industry. In this episode, Tom walks through Buzzsprout's migration from Paperclip t...
People in this episode
Host: Robby Russell
Guest: Tom Rossi
Topics covered
- Rails
- podcasting
- software development
- technology
- business strategy
Keywords
- Rails
- Buzzsprout
- podcasts
- software
- development
- migration
- Paperclip
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Higher Pixels, Buzzsprout
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