Behind the Scenes: Developing Podias New Version

About this episode

The hosts discuss the development and rollout of Podia's new app version, along with various technical topics related to Rails and CSS tooling.

Chris, Andrew, and David open with some classic confusion over what day it is then dive into Podia’s gradual rollout of a major new app version, including how the team is handling migration, feature flags, dogfooding, and eventual cleanup. From there, the discussion turns to underrated Rails routing features like direct routes and resolve routes, a newly merged Rails query command, observability improvements through Hatchbox’s AppSignal integration, and the ongoing pain of CSS build tooling i...

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Hosts: Chris Oliver, Andrew Mason, David Hill

Topics covered

• Podia app development
• Rails routing features
• CSS build tooling
• feature flags
• observability improvements

Keywords

• Podia
• Rails
• feature flags
• CSS build tooling
• AppSignal
• observability
• routing features

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Organizations: Podia, Rails, Hatchbox, AppSignal

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