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Podcast: Can Machine Learning Solve the Challenges of Cloud Computing? | Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) | Brandeis University Good introduction to Cloud Computing and Machine Learning tags: [...
Read more →Instrumenting Ruby on Rails with Prometheus Pretty cool way to instrument rails code. Not sure how performant it is though. tags: rails instrumentation monitoring Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
How to Schedule Cron Jobs in Ruby With the Whenever Gem Useful gem to have in your toolbox. tags: tutorial ruby [Cron](https://www.diigo.com/use...
Read more →How I Almost Destroyed a £50 million War Plane and The Normalisation of Deviance. Unusual article not about computers, still with some excellen...
Read more →Microsoft Launches Bosque: An Open Source Programming Language Interesting to see a brand new language come out of research. tags: open source programming language microsoft Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Why OO Sucks Joe Armstrong is a famous person in Erlang circles. He passes away yesterday. tags: OO oop object oriented Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Dockerize the multi-services application for local development Combining multiple services in a container makes local development easier...
Read more →textacular/textacular: Textacular exposes full text search capabilities from PostgreSQL, and allows you to declare full text indexes. Textacularwill extend ActiveRecord with named_scope methods making searching easy and fun! This really works! I’ve been ...
Read more →Faster PostgreSQL Counting More abo!ut performance of Postgres tags: postgres performance [postgresql](https://www.diigo.com/user/p...
Read more →How do I know whether my Rails app is thread-safe or not? Quite good explanation of thread safety in Ruby apps tags: ruby threads rails threadsafe Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Maintain the “GitHub flow” with Gitpod, an online, browser IDE – JAXenter Looks quite useful if it works nicely. tags: ide online github Public Sans Could be useful! tags: font Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Hire People or Optimize Processes: A cost-benefit analysis for engineering leaders Perspective on the payback of hiring more pe...
Read more →Don’t confuse Ruby’s ‘throw’ statement with ‘raise’ (Example) 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 [...
Read more →codercom/code-server 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! tags: vscode [tips](htt...
Read more →Architecting Ruby on Rails Apps as Microservices | Codeship | via @codeship Great article about Service Oriented Architectures tags: SOA [rails...
Read more →Untangling Ruby Threads Dealing with Ruby Threads is tricky. And add to that understanding the GIL, and thread unsafeness and its pretty subtle! tags: concurrency [ruby](https://www.diigo.c...
Read more →Scaling a Ruby on Rails app on Heroku You know I’m into scalability right now. Here’s a short article with lots of the basics. tags: ruby [scalability](https://www.diigo...
Read more →Stop using so many divs! An intro to semantic HTML This makes a ...
Read more →Drawing Graphs using Dot and Graphviz Another great overview and cheatsheet for Dot tags: graphviz diagrams dot howto cheatsheet Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Flatdoc A super simple automatic open source doc generator. Except I dont quite understand it. I have a feeling once I try it it will be obvious tags: documentation [opensource](https://www.diigo.com/user/pi...
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