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The answer is in your heap: debugging a big memory increase in Ruby on Rails
I recently participated in an interesting series of debugging sessions tracking down the source of a large increase in memory when upgrading a Rails application. We ultimately tracked down the cause using John Hawthorn’s Sheap heap analyzer and su...
Migrating from Sidekiq to Solid Queue | Kyle Keesling
With the recent release of Solid Queue, and a little bit of extra free time due to the holidays, I made a decision to migrate my apps away from Sidekiq. The idea of simplifying my infrastructure requirements by removing Redis from the equation, an...
Unveiling the big leap in Ruby 3.3’s IRB | Rails at Scale
In this blog post, we will delve into the major enhancements introduced in Ruby 3.3’s IRB, as well as what’s currently planned for the next year.In a nutshell, Ruby 3.3’s IRB offers improved debugging capabilities, an enhanced autocompletion exper...