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How we safely upgraded a legacy Rails app with limited tests
Upgrading a 150k-line Rails monolith with low test coverage is risky. We avoided a "big bang" by using progressive rollouts and bot traffic to ensure a stable, incident-free migration.
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WebMCP: Making your website ready for AI agents
WebMCP is the new W3C standard that makes websites natively operable by AI agents, no slow vision models needed. Learn how to implement it in 15 minutes.
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All systems go: Martian Day Q1 2026 and the craft of AI engineering
MarsBased Q1 2026 review: A deep dive into our Martian Day strategy sessions focused on refining AI implementations, architectural precision, and technical mastery.
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Leveling up: The new MarsBased Handbook
The MarsBased Handbook got a major refresh: new design, better search, and faster access to all policies and benefits. Find answers more intuitively than ever.
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Scaling new frontiers: Our landmark partnership with Canals d'Urgell
MarsBased signs its largest project in years with Canals d'Urgell, a partnership born from our mastery of AI discovery. We are leveraging AI as our primary ally to deliver two major, high-performance web applications.
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MarsBased @ MWC & 4YFN 2026: The recap 🚀
Is coding becoming a commodity? Dive into our MWC 2026 recap to explore how Agentic AI is redefining the developer’s role and why the future belongs to the AI-native generation
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The boy-scout engineer: Frontending with detail series (part 3)
True quality is defined by a mindset of accountability and the Boy-Scout Rule of leaving code cleaner than you found it. Senior success requires radical ownership and rigorous self-review to deliver excellence in every single commit.
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MarsBased @ MWC & 4YFN 2026
Barcelona is turning into the global tech epicenter this week, and MarsBased is right in the thick of it. Our CEO, Àlex RodrÃguez Bacardit , and our CTO, Xavier Redó Cano, will be taking the stage across several venues to discuss Agentic AI, the future of engineering, and sustainable growth.
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Agents will not kill SaaS: They will circumvent it
Agentic AI won't kill SaaS because the value of SaaS isn't in the code itself. That's easy to replicate, but the rest isn't.
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Trust is the ultimate success metric: We’re back with Singularu!
Trust is the ultimate metric: We are thrilled to be back 'in the kitchen' with Singularu for a new strategic chapter.
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The quality crisis in software
Software quality is declining even as tools improve. Buggy launches and unpolished AI apps signal a crisis in digital craft — quality is now a competitive edge.
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Using Cursor as a Product Manager: faster answers, fewer pings
Stop the Slack scavenger hunt and navigate your codebase directly. Learn how to use Cursor to get faster answers and reduce engineer pings.
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