A Ruby on Rails newsletter & blog
To my knowledge, there is no standard or conventional way to configure and manage multiple Redis connection pools in Rails, so in this article I’ll detail a simple strategy for doing so...
July 29, 2023
ORMs are great, but sometimes they make it so easy that we're not thinking about what's happening underneath, resulting in hard to track down bugs...
July 24, 2022
Redesigning an existing application can be a time consuming process, especially for a relatively large application. Performing a redesign behind a feature flag has a lot of benefits....
March 31, 2022
Preventing spam can be an evolving game of whack-a-mole and what you learn from observing, will drive what and how you block certain behaviors as well as what you monitor...
March 6, 2022
How should you format your API keys and how should they be stored and encrypted? How do you allow users to gracefully roll a new API key? How do you handle permissions and authorization? These are just some of the decisions you’ll have to make....
January 23, 2022