Meet the Developer Behind Fileboost
Hi, I'm Bilal — the developer behind Fileboost.
While scaling Rails apps in production, I kept running into the same bottleneck: Active Storage. Every image variant was being generated on demand. That meant servers were tied up doing CPU-heavy work while users sat waiting. Even after the processing, Active Storage still required a database lookup for every request.
I built Fileboost to solve that problem — not just for myself, but for other Rails developers who've felt the same pain.
Fileboost is a simple drop-in gem that:
- Handles image transforms and optimization at the edge
- Delivers images globally from cache for blazing speed
- Frees your servers to do what they were meant for — serving requests
There's no complicated setup, no infra rewrites. Just faster image delivery, reduced server load, and happier users.
I'm building Fileboost as a solo founder with one goal: make Rails apps faster and lighter, without adding more complexity for developers.
