You know I’m into scalability right now. Here’s a short article with lots of the basics.
Great article about Service Oriented Architectures
Dealing with Ruby Threads is tricky. And add to that understanding the GIL, and thread unsafeness and its pretty subtle!
Everyone knows by now to never put secret keys in code, right?
Another great review of concurrency in Ruby
I don’t quite understand this, nor have I tried it. But the claim is pretty amazing: run vocode on aws or azure, so your development environment is hosted there!
Who knew this was a thing.
A bit technical and esoteric but interesting insights.
Wow this is a really good one. I didn't know and have to make sure I clear this up in my mind!
Perspective on the payback of hiring more people vs. optimizing Dev process so as to require fewer.
Two part series on using queues to communicate between services.
Looks quite useful if it works nicely.
If you are doing full text search using Postgres, this could be game changing
Quite good explanation of thread safety in Ruby apps
This really works! I've been experimenting with full text search in postgres with Heroku and there's a fair amount of documentation around.
Back in September 2014, we were three years into our cloud cadence. And we were still running our testing the way we had tested before moving to the cloud. We were trying to do things faster, we were trying to optimize our automation, but we were struggling.
Good tips on basic dB optimization. Especially for Heroku and Postgres