Blogs
How Much Does Meltdown/Spectre Patching Slow Down a Big Rails App?
You've likely heard about the Meltdown and Spectre bugs that affect nearly all modern CPUs. You've probably heard that the patch to fix them costs some performance. You'll hear between a 5% and 20% penalty or more, depending who you ask and about ...
Event-Driven Microservices with RabbitMQ and Ruby
In my last post we discussed how event sourcing with Apache Kafka can be used to create robust reactive microservices. While event sourcing as an architectural pattern is useful to understand, it is not commonly used when starting a new project or...