Eddie Galindo & Kagen Hearn: Rate Limiting For Your Customers

Eddie Galindo is an engineering lead at Ascend and Kagen Hearn is a senior software engineer there, working on a Rails app that helps insurance agencies move and reconcile money.

Robby chats with Eddie and Kagen about why Ascend still runs one Rails monolith five years in, what changed when much larger customers started arriving, and how the team went about finding the real limits of their data ingestion pipeline. They also get into feature flags versus database configuration, and where AI tooling fits in when the software you ship moves money.

Links:
Ascend - https://www.useascend.com/

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On Rails is a podcast focused on real-world technical decision-making, exploring how teams are scaling, architecting, and solving complex challenges with Rails. 

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