Chris and David welcome back Adam McCrea from Judoscale, to discuss the uncertainty around Heroku after Salesforce’s announcement that it would stop taking new enterprise customers. Adam shares how the news landed in real time during a founder’s retreat, and the conversation expands into what Heroku’s apparent “maintenance mode” means for developers, pricing, autoscaling, platform alternatives, and the broader challenge of building durable developer businesses in the AI era. They also touch on Judoscale’s upcoming “platform tour” and the value of smaller Ruby conferences. Hit download now to hear more!

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Remote Ruby-Episode 163: Autoscaling Rails with Adam McCrea

Heroku: What’s Next by Jon Sully (Judoscale Blog)

An update on Heroku by Nitin T Bhat

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Blue Ridge Ruby, April 30-May 1, 2026, Asheville, NC

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Chris, Andrew, and David welcome special guest Jeff Dickey (jdx), creator of mise, discussing his background rewriting the Heroku CLI from Ruby to Node due to Ruby distribution/sandboxing issues. The conversation digs into why language CLIs are hard to distribute, the tradeoffs between shims vs PATH-based version switching, why tasks can be the “clean” solution, and Jeff’s Rust-first tooling philosophy. They also dive into his other projects: usage (CLI docs/completions), Pitchfork (dev daemon runner that starts/stops services by directory), and fnox/Fort Knox (secrets management with encrypted files or remote stores like 1Password), and a big upcoming shift: pre-compiled (portable) Rubies becoming the default in mise. Press download now!

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• Judoscale- Remote Ruby listener gift
• Jeff Dickey X
• Jeff Dickey (jdx) Bluesky
• mise
• fnox
• --usage
• Pitchfork
• communiqué
• Casey Neistat: NYC’s Worst Blizzard in a Decade, hour by hour (YouTube)

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Cameron Dutro returns to the show to introduce LiveComponent, a new library that adds client-side state and targeted re-rendering to Rails ViewComponent using Hotwire + Stimulus with minimal JavaScript. Chris, Andrew, and Cameron dig into why he built it, how it serializes component state and models, how updates flow from events to fast server-rendered HTML morphs, where it shines compared to plain Turbo/Stimulus, and how optional React support can help with migration and interoperability. Hit download now to hear more!

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• Judoscale- Remote Ruby listener gift
• Cameron Dutro GitHub
• Cameron Dutro X
• Remote Ruby-Episode 134: Kubernetes, JSX for Ruby, and more with Cameron Dutro
• LiveComponent
• LiveComponent React Integration
• Global ID-Rails
• SNOO Smart Sleeper Bassinet

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