Creating Health Checks
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Creating Health Checks

#208 Sep 22, 2019 pro
Health Checks are an important part of monitoring an application's health. However, a simple status response may not be sufficient. In this episode, we look at creating a health check which monitors some dependencies of a Rails application.

Adaptive Bitrate Streaming with Active Storage
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Adaptive Bitrate Streaming with Active Storage

#232 Mar 8, 2020 pro
Adaptive streaming allows the video provider to create a different video for each of the screen sizes (or devices) that he or she wishes to target. In this episode, we look at converting our Progressive Video Streams into Adaptive Bitrate Streams and serving it through Active Storage.

Stripe Payments
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Stripe Payments

#260 Sep 20, 2020 pro
The past tutorials look at creating subscriptions with Stripe, but in this episode, we look at using Stripe for a cart-like checkout system where nonrecurring orders can be placed.

Cache Warming
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Cache Warming

#273 Dec 13, 2020 pro
Caching is a great way to speed up your applications. However, when a cache becomes stale, there could be a user experience degradation until the cache is rebuilt. In this episode, we look at implementing a background job to rebuild the cache.

Cropping Active Storage Uploads
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Cropping Active Storage Uploads

#280 Jan 24, 2021 pro
Cropping images can be hard and there can be quite a few complications. In this episode, we have a look at using StimulusJS to crop images uploaded through Active Storage.