During this year I noticed 2 similar concurrency problems with my Ruby on Rails application and I solved them with distributed locks. I’m going to show you h... (more…)

A tragicomical story about writing a notification engine that's responsible for sending notifications when websites blow up. (more…)

As someone who, like many here, depends on Rails for my job, I’m worried about the long term effects of the last week on Rails. I’m not going to discuss those changes at Basecamp but I want to discuss my concerns about what this means for Rails itself. I... (more…)

A typical Ruby on Rails application comes with ActiveRecord, which makes using RDBMS (such as MySQL, PostgreSQL etc) cake walk. There are… (more…)

It's the heyday of SaaS and webhooks are all the rage. Learn how to build a webhook system for your service using Rails and Sidekiq. (more…)