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.
tags: gps geolocation words address
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.
Some great links for 03/26/2019
Another great overview and cheatsheet for Dot
tags: graphviz diagrams dot howto cheatsheet
Some great links for 03/25/2019
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 github.pages
An amazing set of cheat sheets from a prolific developer in the philippines
tags: cheatsheet programming tips
Some great links for 03/24/2019
Really really interesting use case for REDIS, and a great scalability pattern
tags: scale redis datastructures howto scalability streams
Kind of interesting about security, hacking, protocols and ssh
Some great links for 03/17/2019
Always interesting to see major improvements in classic algorithms
tags: compression algorithms data
More good explanation of how to see if two sets of observations seem to be coming from a single distrbution.
tags: statistics probabilities distributions
I’m back looking at statistics. This KS test is one of the basic statistical tests to compare two samples.
tags: statistics distributions test
Some great links for 03/15/2019
Quaternions are a really complicated mathematical concept which are used extensively in 3d robotics. They are really hard to understand. This article helps.
tags: Quaternions robotics 3d