Some great links for 04/16/2019
More abo!ut performance of Postgres
tags: postgres performance postgresql scaling
If you are doing full text search using Postgres, this could be game changing
tags: postgres performance ruby fulltext
Some great links for 04/15/2019
Quite good explanation of thread safety in Ruby apps
tags: ruby threads rails threadsafe
Some great links for 04/13/2019
Perspective on the payback of hiring more people vs. optimizing Dev process so as to require fewer.
tags: analysis management performance hire
Some great links for 04/12/2019
Wow this is a really good one. I didn't know and have to make sure I clear this up in my mind!
tags: ruby throw catch exceptions
Who knew this was a thing.
tags: configuration power tips WiFi
A bit technical and esoteric but interesting insights.
Some great links for 04/09/2019
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!
Everyone knows by now to never put secret keys in code, right?
Some great links for 04/03/2019
Great article about Service Oriented Architectures
tags: SOA rails scale services architecture
Another great review of concurrency in Ruby
tags: concurrency ruby tips threads threadsafe
Some great links for 04/02/2019
Dealing with Ruby Threads is tricky. And add to that understanding the GIL, and thread unsafeness and its pretty subtle!
tags: concurrency ruby tips threads threadsafe
More nice information about multithreading and concurrency in Ruby
tags: runtimes jruby mri concurrency ruby tips
What the different runtimes do different. It might be a little dated but its still good.
tags: concurrency ruby tips runtimes jruby mri
tags: concurrency ruby tips howto
Some great links for 03/30/2019
You know I’m into scalability right now. Here’s a short article with lots of the basics.
tags: ruby scalability scaling performance ruby on rails
I used to think this was a brilliant idea. This article convinced me it’s a gimmick.
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Some great links for 03/28/2019
This makes a ton of sense. Wait a minute while I go edit my html files, ok.
tags: html tags organization semantic design
Who knew these interesting html tags existed. Check them out!
A timeless question, full of biases and misinformation.