This is a re-post of an article I wrote for my company's blog. Here's a story of how we improved our CI run times in one of our core Ruby services by...
I want to share a little algorithm I wrote to solve a puzzle. It's fairly basic computer science, but I feel a bit proud of it because I worked throu...
Now I'll turn what I did in Part 1 into code. First, I'll set up a new Composer project. My composer.json looks like this (truncated): { "require...
My recent queue foray put me on the scent of Faktory, a language-agnostic queue server made by Sidekiq's author. I noticed there wasn't a good PHP cl...
No big revelation here, just writing this as a reminder to myself next time I try curl localhost from WSL and it doesn't work: Don't use localhost o...
This post is part 4 of a series where I build a task queue system. Other parts: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Before we continue, at this point, you'd have...
This post is part 3 of a series where I build a task queue system. Other parts: Part 1 Part 2 Part 4 Error handling Right now, when an error happe...
I thought I understood Ruby's Module class, but nope. While reading Jeremy Evans' Polished Ruby Programming, I looked deeper and found some confusing...
This post is part 2 of a series where I build a task queue system. Other parts: Part 1 Part 3 Part 4 Next, I'll beef up my queue library with some...
This post is part 1 of a series where I build a task queue system. Other parts: Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Motivation Some time ago, I came across a pos...
This post was inspired by this Twitter conversation. The tweet asserts: I should be able to use pnpm while my teammates use yarn or npm, without iss...
I'm sorry, I know the title is confusing!😖 I couldn't think of a better way to summarize the task, so I went with that. So let me explain the prob...
