Sometimes we need to pull down our staging database that is hosted in the cloud. This can be a tedious task as there could be many blockers that add complications in pulling down this data.

AWS S3 has been a reliable service over the years and for a long time it was the only option. However, in the past few years, there has been more cloud storage options that have popped up with compatible S3 APIs. These services can sometimes offer better pricing and speeds.

In a later Rails release, dev container configurations will be provided by default. In this episode, we will explore how to use dev containers as well as modifying them to fit our application's needs.

In this episode, we take a tour of what Kubernetes is, how to install and configure a local development instance, and deploying a sample application.

Visual Studio Code is a powerful editor by itself, but with the addition of a few extensions, we can turn it into a much more intelligent IDE.