As part of my job I have to deal with quite heavy I/O loads. Multiple times I’ve jumped into a fighting ring facing challenges that demand me to perform thousands of I/O operations in the most efficient way possible. And I haven’t always won. This has directed…

Today, we are excited to announce the launch of The Rails Foundation. Its mission is to improve the documentation, education, marketing, and events in our ecosystem to the benefit of all new and existing Rails developers. It’s been started by some of the…

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This Strong Towns member was skeptical of claims that a speed trap had successfully slowed the cars on a local street…so, he conducted a speed study. Here are his results.

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London was overtaken by Paris as economic growth concerns hit UK assets.

Before search engines were what they are today, webrings were a great way to find websites that interested you. So what happened to them?

I'm convinced that one of the biggest architectural mistakes of the past decade was going full microservice

On a spectrum of monolith to microservices, I suggest the following:

Monolith > apps > services > microservices

So, some thoughts

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Guess it is official now.

A vision of the future.

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