When you deploy a fresh Rails 8 app with the Solid “trifecta” (Solid Cache, Solid Queue, Solid Cable), you actually have four database connections in production: primary, cache, queue, and cable. If only `DATABASE_URL` is set, the other three try to connect via the default…

There was a Hackathon by our local government a few days back and the whole situation was insane. They almost brought me to tears. It was a 36-hour Hackathon and it felt like torture for the participants. Some of them fainted, some of burned out,…