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6	About	2018-08-02 13:13:39 +0000	Aike	page	http://www.runrails.com/?page_id=6

Hi, I’m Aike. I’m a freelance software developer from the Netherlands. These days I build web applications with Ruby on Rails. Before that I was a Linux server administrator.

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    When I was a sysadmin I sometimes <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070209232211/http://www.debian-administration.org:80/articles/423" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> tutorials, I liked doing that. I recently noticed that a there are a lot of blogs about Ruby on Rails development but few about the challenges of running Rails in production. Setting up servers, monitoring, backups, etc.
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    I&#8217;ve started this blog to address that. Let me know if I missed something or you want me to write about something. You can DM me on <a href="https://www.twitter.com/runrails">Twitter</a> or mail me at <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>.
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    This blog has it&#8217;s own twitter feed <a href="https://twitter.com/runrails">@runrails</a>, that tweets when I post something new and when I see something interesting in the news. My personal twitter is <a href="https://twitter.com/aikedejongste">@aikedejongste</a>, that includes most tweets from <a href="https://twitter.com/runrails">@runrails</a>. Follow me and say hi 🙂
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    When I have something really interesting to share I publish a newsletter which you can sign up for with the form in the sidebar.
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