Blogs
Meet Yabeda: Modular framework for instrumenting Ruby applications
Adopt metrics-driven development today with a drop-in open source framework and a family of gems that makes instrumenting Ruby web applications a breeze and works with Rails, Sidekiq, and Prometheus out of the box. Learn how Yabeda changed the way...
Spinning up a Rails application from scratch with Docker for development
Starting a brand new Rails application is one of the most pleasant activities along the development process. As a software engineer this is the best chance to setup the environment with up-to-date versions of tools and dependencies to start fresh.
How to learn Ruby: recommended resources for beginners
There are many great tutorials and books out there if you are just getting started with Ruby. The skills you learn around Ruby syntax and object-oriented design will help you write better applications, for example a Ruby on Rails web application o...
How we halved our memory consumption in Rails with jemalloc
One of the earliest projects I was involved in at Valiant was investigating ways to optimise performance and memory consumption in our Rails web application. Although I had heard the age-old complaints about Rails applications being slow, bulky an...