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!
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.
A super valuable alternative to REST. You should learn it,!
If you use css you should know this!
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.
The madness of interviewing at google. OMG!
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.
Huge collection of images for your hacking pleasure!
It’s always hard to handle branches. This was a very popular post when it came out.
One in a series of why monoliths are better than microservices
Why microservices are so much worse than monoliths. Yes this is a self serving and self promotional article. But I think he is right.
Foreman is now superseded by overmind, which is better and more awesome. Worth a look.
Good explanation. Although I don’t know exactly what his difference is between a facade, a presenter and a service object.
Build your own... operating system, programming language, web server, etc.
Really good simple explanation of making a multi step form in Rails.