By Ben Downey Amazon’s recent announcement about AWS Lambda support for Ruby has a lot Rubyists excited. There’s a lot of buzz around serverless architecture. Lambda enables developers to generate apps that can be spun up on request and that...
A few days ago, we looked at the rationale behind how one of our project teams tackled the question: How would we set up end-to-end testing for a product that had a Angular 5 frontend and Rails 5 API backend? This was from Part 1 of this series. If you’re...
Web applications always have a backend and a frontend. Waaaaaaaay back in the day the norm was to use backend technologies to develop both the backend and frontend. Server-side code would generate and spit out HTML and JavaScript to a user’s browser. Nowadays,...
The other week we took a look at importing data quickly into Ruby on Rails applications and saw how activerecord-import can speed up importing large sets of data, by 13x to nearly 40x, with just a few lines of code. One thing that post didn’t cover was how to...
Application frameworks often provide their own out of the box services for interacting with databases. This works great when processing data in a onesie-twosie fashion, but what about large batches of data? I ran into this problem over a decade ago with the not yet...
Writing an interactive command line tool using non-blocking IO opens doors that tools using blocking IO can only dream of. Your program no longer has to sit there and do nothing while it’s waiting for user input. It can do other things. OTHER THINGS. This...
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