Here are three practical AI use cases that help companies speed up information workflows, reduce errors, and relieve teams over the long term, while staying compliant with data-protection regulations.

AI is already a major topic among small and medium-sized businesses, but its widespread adoption is still in its early stages. This article offers guidance based on our experience implementing AI projects for small and medium-sized businesses.

Cloud platforms such as AWS have been the standard for hosting and running workloads for a long time now. But as usage grows, so does uncertainty: Why are costs rising even though usage seems to remain stable? Many teams eventually face this question.

Your Rails application is running but technical debt is piling up? You don't have your own or only have a small development team, and value a secure application? You want to improve the performance of your app and keep errors to a minimum?

RAG combines the power of large language models with company-specific knowledge without compromising sensitive data. In this article, we show the advantages RAG offers companies and how the approach can be integrated into your own infrastructure.

Team makandra visited the Rails World conference! Once again with a large team – and for the first time – with a booth to support the conference and engage in conversation with as many people as possible.

At first glance, software development and gardening have little in common. But just as some plants need support, test-driven development helps to build code that is stable and reliable right from the start.

How cognitive biases and heuristics influence user experience design and how you can use them specifically to create better digital user experiences.

Official support for Rails 2.3 expired in 2013, but many companies were still using the version. A tweet gave makandra the idea to fill the gap. That's how Rails LTS came about.

AI tools are considered productivity boosters – but do they deliver on their promise? And what does all this have to do with gambling in casinos? We asked our colleagues how they use AI in their everyday work as developers and what advice they would give to juniors on working with AI.

We have always relied on stable, maintainable technologies. Now we are expanding our stack with Next.js, creating new opportunities for fast, interactive applications. Read here to find out what this means for our customers.

It has been official since March 17, 2025: Heroku has updated its guidelines for supporting Rails versions. These changes will affect many developers and teams who are still working with older Rails versions that have already reached end of life (EOL).