Rails still delivers MVPs faster than almost anything.
Rails + Turbo + Stimulus gives founders production-ready features without the complexity of modern JS-heavy stacks.
Developer speed is a feature.
When an app feels slow, 80% of the time the issue is in data-fetching, not the frontend.
Add caching, pagination, selective queries — the difference is night and day.
Optimize servers before optimizing components.
After 30+ API integrations, here’s a hard truth:
💡 Never trust external API responses.
💡 Validate everything — schemas, types, edge cases, missing fields.
💡 One undocumented provider change can take down your workflow.