Building MapView: Architecture, CI/CD, and Production Deployment on Railway

MapView is a server-side map rendering engine for Rails built as a three-layer stack: ruby-libgd (C graphics wrapper), libgd-gis (GIS raster engine), and a Rails gem integration layer. The post covers the full production architecture deployed on Railway, including a zero-downtime CI/CD pipeline triggered by GitHub pushes,

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Apr 14•8m read time•From rubystacknews.com

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Introduction Project Architecture Three-Layer Stack Separation of Concerns The Demo Application Deployment Architecture on Railway Project Structure Services on Railway Networking CI/CD Pipeline Local Development → GitHub Deployment Flow Dockerfile Optimization Handling Secrets and Configuration Encrypted Credentials Environment Variables Database Migrations Monitoring and Debugging Logs Error Tracking Health Checks Performance Considerations Render Time Caching Database Queries Disaster Recovery Backups Rollback Strategy Cost Optimization Resource Sizing Cold Start Optimization Asset Delivery Lessons Learned What Worked Well Challenges Overcome Conclusion Getting Started Share this:Related

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