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Legacy Ruby on Rails apps don’t fail because of bad technology. They fail because business decisions around them get delayed for too long. We’ve seen this pattern repeatedly: • The product still makes money • Customers are active • The app technically “works” • But every change takes longer than it should • Releases feel risky • And growth starts exposing cracks no one planned for At that point, the real question isn’t “Is Rails outdated?” It’s: “Is our application still helping the business or quietly slowing it down?” That’s what this article is about. Not rewrites for the sake of rewrites. Not chasing trends. Not fear-driven modernization. Instead, we break down: – How to tell whether a Rails app is truly legacy (from a business perspective) – When modernization creates real ROI and when it doesn’t – Why incremental modernization beats full rewrites in most cases – What a low-risk modernization process actually looks like – Lessons from real companies that scaled Rails responsibly Modernization is not a technical project. It’s a capital allocation decision. If you’re a founder, CTO, or product lead sitting on a Rails product that still matters to your business, this framework will help you think more clearly before pressure forces a rushed decision. We’ve published the full guide here 👇 (link in comments)

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This week, we’re thrilled to spotlight Alejandro Cabrera for his impactful presentation on Communicating Technical Concepts to Non-Technical Clients and Users! Here are some of the strategies Alejandro shared in his presentation: 🎯 It's important to frame updates around speed, reliability, and cost, not just code. 🛠️ Use analogies, visual layers, and diagrams to make technical ideas stick. In short, summaries, screen recordings, and honest trade-off discussions help create alignment. Thanks, Alejandro, for giving our team a refresher on technical empathy, an essential soft skill that drives real project success! #TechTalk #CommunicationMatters #Vazkor #DeveloperSkills #ClientRelations

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Scaling isn’t just about growing teams or revenue, it’s about staying true to who you are while you grow. In this episode, Víctor Velázquez, Chief Operating Officer at MagmaLabs, opens up about the real challenges behind growth, balancing scale, purpose, and people. 🚀 Ep. 8: Scaling Without Losing Your Soul, now available! https://shorturl.at/9XYn2 #scaling #growth #startupgrowth #WeAreMagma

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Nearshore software development is simply a smarter way to scale. Top engineering talent. Aligned time zones. Faster product delivery. Less overhead. Nearshoring lets you build high-performing dev teams without the usual hiring headaches. #Nearshoring #Outsourcing #SoftwareDevelopment #SoftwareEngineers #KeepMovingForward

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GeneXus Next: Agentic Development for Mission-Critical Systems ➡️ https://hubs.ly/Q03vlVXV0 Ready for the future of enterprise software? On June 30, 2025, GeneXus Next released a powerful new iteration, doubling down on agentic backend automation and pushing us closer to the Q3 official launch. What’s different? Forget coding faster or deploying everywhere. Now it’s about designing agentic solutions - where smart agents and humans collaborate to build complex, future-proof systems. We’re not talking about copilots that just suggest code. We’re talking about a platform where intelligent agents do the work: modeling, integrating, optimizing—autonomously. Curious what’s already possible in the public beta? We sat down with Armin Bachmann, Product Manager at GeneXus, to get the inside track. Read the full story 📎https://hubs.ly/Q03vlVXV0 Globant | ✍️Wina Arambulé . . . . #GeneXusNext #AgenticAI #EnterpriseAI #LowCode #FutureOfWork #DigitalTransformation #AIAgents #SoftwareDevelopment #MissionCritical #NoCode #Automation #TechInnovation

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⚙️ Software development is entering a new era. Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) are being transformed by artificial intelligence to speed up tasks, improve code quality, and enhance the developer experience. 💡 In this opinion column, Julián Haeberli, Software Developer, explores how AI is reshaping the way we code and what impact it could have on the future of development 👉 https://bit.ly/4lCMIqv #AI #AIAssistedDevelopment #IDEs #DigitalTransformation #Innovation #FutureOfWork #Baufest #DevExperience #Productivity #SoftwareDevelopment

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🚀 Struggling with inconsistent development environments? Say goodbye to the dreaded "But... it works on my machine!" with Dev Containers. In our latest article, Humberto Llauradó Falcó explores how #DevContainers standardize configurations, streamline onboarding, and ensure a frictionless development experience—regardless of OS or tool versions. Ready to level up your development workflow? https://lnkd.in/dDFcRZY6 #DualbootPartners #SoftwareDevelopment #DevOps

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In this episode, Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch goes deep on how V0, their text-to-app platform, has already generated over 100 million applications and doubled Vercel’s user base in under a year. Guillermo reveals how a tiny SWAT team inside Vercel built V0 from scratch, why “vibe coding” is making software creation accessible to everyone (not just engineers), and how the AI Cloud is automating DevOps, making cloud infrastructure self-healing, and letting companies expose their data to AI agents in just five lines of code. You’ll hear why “every company will have to rethink itself as a token factory,” how Vercel’s Next.js went from a conference joke to powering Walmart, Nike, and Midjourney, and why the next billion app creators might not write a single line of code. Guillermo breaks down the difference between vibe coding and agentic engineering, shares wild stories of users building apps from napkin sketches, and explains how Vercel is infusing “taste” and best practices directly into their AI models. We also dig into the business side: how Vercel’s AI-powered products are driving explosive growth, why retention and margins are strong, and how the company is adapting to a new wave of non-technical users. Plus: the future of MCP servers, the security challenges of agent-to-agent communication, and why prompting and AI literacy are now must-have skills. LISTEN ON: YouTube: https://lnkd.in/g5YBagTn Spotify: https://lnkd.in/ge52jHdt Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/g5U23JzQ

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