§ Tidbits of developer best practices from around the web. Stuff you’ve seen before, collected in one README.md: When I hear “JUST BANG OUT CODE THAT WORKS” I think of all the apps I don’t use anymore because they gradually lost … Continue reading
Stateless Stop writing classes (or how to avoid unnecessary state) Stored Everything you need to know about Redis persistence and how it compares to Postgresql and MySQL: From a more practical point of view Redis provides both AOF and RDB snapshots, that … Continue reading
/proc usp.ruby is a mailing list about Unix system programming in Ruby. Not system level programming, for that you’ll need some C face time, rather writing Ruby applications and using all the firepower Unix provides (much of which also applies to OS … Continue reading
José Valim: Travis is like Github for CIs. So easy to setup that everyone does it. It’s the new awesomesauce. If you need continuous integration for your open source projects than Travis CI is a no brainer. It’s free. It … Continue reading
Uphill, Both Ways I got interested in JavaScript when it arrived to the world as Netscape LiveScript. It came in two distinct flavors: client-side JavaScript running in the browser, and not many people remember, Server-Side JavaScript for writing the back-end … Continue reading
Bees with machine guns! Low-cost, distributed load-testing using EC2. Using MySQL as a NoSQL – A story for exceeding 750,000 qps on a commodity server. Brought to you by the NoMySQL movement. Miner finds the hottest upcoming Rubygems jQuery 1.4.3 … Continue reading
The best part about working with frameworks and libraries is that you don’t have to reinvent the wheel. Someone else did the hard work, and there’s usually more hard work than meets the eye. The downside is that they’re never … Continue reading
How Necktie Happened Necktie came about when I needed to automate server configuration for Apartly. We run on EC2, which means instances for production, for staging, and for short-lived tasks like testing out new configuration or performance benchmarking. To get … Continue reading
.@csharpfritz, @jptoto If you are using EC2 EBS volumes and not taking regular snapshots, you are not being backed up… ShlomoSwidler Amazon EBS snapshots are awesome. You can take snapshots to backup your database, quickly move data between staging and … Continue reading
Seek and you shall … How the brain hard-wires us to love Google, Twitter, and texting: “The dopamine system does not have satiety built into it,” Berridge explains. “And under certain conditions it can lead us to irrational wants, excessive … Continue reading