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Jul 02, 2026
Ozymandias on Rails. Cartography of a Ruin
You inherited a monolith with no map. This is how you start drawing one.
Jun 28, 2026Ozymandias on Rails. The Pedestal Inscription
Every successful Rails monolith becomes a ruin if it survives long enough. This post is about why, a
Jun 25, 2026Rails: The Sharp Parts. A Polymorphic Type Is Not a Foreign Key
Polymorphic associations store a relationship as a class name in a string with no foreign key. That