I just finished reading Rails Scales! by Cristian Planas today. Overall, I def recommend this newly published book to folks working in Rails. Depending on how long you’ve been building in Rails, this will either end up as a nice refresher on a lot of commonly overlooked topics or it’ll be exposure to new techniques you haven’t worked with before. For me, it was more refresher than new stuff, but I also found the perspective and insight Cristian touts to be in line with all of my experience. It was such a good book I actually wanted to help improve it by posting some errata back to the author.

AOL released a statement that they will be discontinuing their dial-up internet service as of Septermber 30th, 2025. This includes related services and software, such as the AOL Dialer Software and AOL Shield Browser, which AOL says are “optimized for older operating systems”. While AOL is not the last dial-up internet service provider out there, it is certainly the most notable holdout.