Join us: Building Secure Healthcare Systems

2026-07-17T00:00:00+00:00

IT and software leaders at healthcare organizations are feeling the pressure to deliver software faster while maintaining compliance and reliability.

Our recent healthcare software delivery research (coming soon!) found that 68% of organizations struggle to increase software delivery velocity without introducing operational or governance risk.

Let’s talk about it!

On July 30, I’ll have the pleasure of moderating a panel featuring:

Clarissa Borges, Development Team Lead at thoughtbot
David Pace, Executive Director of Research Labs IT Enablement and User Experience at Merck
Joël Quenneville, Principal Developer at thoughtbot

Together, we’ll discuss the architectural decisions, developer workflows, and governance practices that help healthcare organizations continue to innovate while reducing risk. We’ll also explore some of the biggest blind spots emerging in architecture, AI, and data governance and share lessons from real-world experience.

Learn more about our virtual panel event and reserve your spot (or sign up to get the recording!)

Thursday, July 30
12pm ET / 11am CT / 9am PT

Upcase has retired, but the learning continues

2026-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

For more than a decade, Upcase was where thoughtbot taught Ruby on Rails. You’d work through a trail, get stuck, watch one of us solve the same problem, and come out a little sharper. Thousands of developers used it to take “junior” out of their title.

We don’t say that lightly. In 2018, we transitioned Upcase from a paid subscription product to a free platform, opening the content to the community. Over time, we’ve continued to rethink how we share what we learn.

Today, we believe open platforms like our blog, podcasts The Bike Shed & Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots, live streams and video channels are better suited to keeping our teaching current, accessible, and connected to the pace of change in software development.

Where to learn Ruby on Rails now

If you’re not sure where to start, start with the blog. It works through the real Rails decisions that don’t have a tidy answer in the docs. When you’re ready to go deeper, our books are free to read. Ruby Science is what we reach for when an app starts to sprawl, and Testing Rails is how a lot of us learned to test. The Bike Shed carries Upcase’s conversational side forward every week, and our open source gems are the same ones we use on client work, out in the open for you to read.

Watch us build

More than anything, Upcase was video, and that content now lives on our YouTube channel. You’ll find short clips to watch on a break and longer tutorials for when you want to go deeper on a topic.

The one to start with is AI in Focus, the closest thing to sitting beside a thoughtbot developer as they solve a real problem in real time. Every week, thoughtbot founder, Chad Pytel, and Development Lead, Louis Antonopoulos, explore AI coding in real time, how LLMs integrate into Rails applications and what it takes to turn AI ideas into production-ready software.

Thank you

To everyone who built, contributed to, or learned through Upcase, thank you. You’re what made it meaningful and your curiosity, feedback, and enthusiasm shaped it over the years.

We look forward to the next chapter in sharing what we learn, as we learn it - and we hope you’ll continue to join us on that journey.