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Why Reliable Monthly Maintenance Became Non-Negotiable for a Solo SaaS Founder

For the past twenty years, TitleLeaf has been helping educational book publishers maintain and share their content with industry partners such as reviewers, wholesalers, and distributors. Its robust content management system and handcrafted digital solutions simplify the process of sharing metadata, digital assets, and marketing material for the book industry.

Here was the situation

Tim Peterson, Founder of TitleLeaf, is a solopreneur balancing the challenges of entrepreneurship with a flexible lifestyle. One of his dreams is to have more time and freedom to do what he enjoys most—skiing and biking in the mountains of Northern California while still running his company as efficiently as possible.

Peterson’s goal is to build an ever-evolving, feature-rich SaaS service and share his domain knowledge with customers without having to manage a team or chase technical updates:

“I got fed up chasing contractors and micromanaging. I tried hiring and outsourcing, but nothing was the right fit. I just wanted reliable maintenance so I didn’t have to worry about it.”

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Valid Eval Achieves 2-5x Performance Gains, Improves Security for Ruby on Rails Architecture

Founded in 2011, Valid Eval provides a secure, SaaS-based platform that helps organizations make defensible, data-driven decisions in high-stakes situations involving many applicants, subjects, domain experts, and judges. The Denver, Colorado-based company primarily serves federal government agencies that need to evaluate complex bids before awarding contracts.

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ReadyTech Accelerates Revenue Growth, Cuts Infrastructure Costs 5-10% with Ruby on Rails Upgrade

Based in Sydney, Australia, ReadyTech combines technology with a people-centric approach to help organisations navigate complexity and deliver meaningful outcomes. With more than 500 employees globally, the publicly-traded company continues to grow rapidly and now serves 4,000+ customers across three vertical segments: Education & Work Pathways, Workforce Solutions, and Government & Justice.

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Power Home Remodeling Increases Server Speed by 40% with FastRuby.io's Tune Report

Power Home Remodeling (Power) is the nation’s largest full-service exterior home remodeler and a top workplace.

Headquartered in Chester, Pennsylvania with offices in 18 territories across the United States, the award-winning company’s primary product line includes windows, siding, doors, roofing, solar roofing panels, and attic insulation.

In this article we will share how our Tune Report helped Power speed up their application by reducing their average page load time from 5 to 3 seconds.

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Upgrading a Large Rails Application from Rails 5.0 to 5.1

We recently collaborated with Procore on a Rails upgrade for their Rails application which allows teams in the construction industry to connect their entire business process.

We spoke with Andy Maltun, Procore’s VP of Software Engineering, about the work performed to help them upgrade their app to version 5.1. According to Maltun, Procore’s R&D department is large and complex. While Procore previously had handled their Rails upgrades internally, with so many teams working on the application, it caused a lot of disruption as each team would handle only part of the upgrade. Therefore, Maltun “wanted to take a different approach this time in an effort to centralize the update and minimize the project management overhead and disruption of teams.”

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