More about Runbook my favorite automation tool so far!
This is a tour the force explanation of building a 5 node infrastructure for a rails app with docker. It’s really detailed. Which always is good but introduces risk of typos or small configuration differences.
So useful! Yet I’ve never used them ... yet. Variables FTW!
Kind of fun collection of all the laws, rules etc. that you might come across in our field
A super valuable alternative to REST. You should learn it,!
Scaling is an important topic that I care about. Here’s one person’s guide to making it to 100k. It’s a very complicated topic.
If you use css you should know this!
This is an amazing tool when you need it. Do queries, merges, filters on json files. You only need it once or twice a year but when you need it, it's a life saver!
The madness of interviewing at google. OMG!
A good introduction to the very confusing combination of JavaScript, yarn, css, etc in rails 6. Hopefully they will clean this up in rails 7.
A good list. I know every single one and would generally agree with it. Some books are too high in the list and some too low. But an excellent starting point.
Faster than Sinatra? By that much? Hard to believe.
Everyone loves pry.
Specific good advice on rails performance and scale.
There are many of these building blocks. Use this to mock a web service that your system depends on. That way you can test your system without incurring the costs (in money and time) of calling the service.
This can always be a paining the butt. And now that Rails4 uses all this new and badly integrated package management stuff it gets worse. This is a helpful article.
It’s always hard to handle branches. This was a very popular post when it came out.
Huge collection of images for your hacking pleasure!
Foreman is now superseded by overmind, which is better and more awesome. Worth a look.