We recently climbed the train of Docker images for production deployment at work, so I found myself in need of a good tutorial on Dockerfiles. Although there is a lot of information on Dockerfile best practices, the Ruby on Rails guides I looked up were a... (more…)

Hey I’m Ahmed, a self taught software engineer. In my path of self learning, I tried multiple languages and frameworks; and one of them was Ruby on Rails. That was at least 5 years ago, and I… (more…)

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

When query, schema and index optimizations aren’t enough to support the load of a high throughput database system, fundamental changes in… (more…)