Blogs
Benchmarking a Go AI in Ruby: CRuby vs. Rubinius vs. JRuby vs. Truffle – a year later
A little more than a year ago I published a blog post benchmarking different ruby implementations against a bot that plays Go which I wrote. Now a little than a year later (~13.5 months) let's see how the different contestants have improved in the...
Will JavaScript frameworks take over Rails? - Quora
“Take over” assumes that Rails had anything to steal. It doesn’t. That’s the beauty of working with and for the web. The diversity and freedom of implementation choices behind the HTTP answer is infinite. So it’s not a zero-sum platform war in the...
Four reasons developers should write their own load tests
Around a year and a half ago my team started performance testing our own services, rather than relying on help from a dedicated performance team. There were all sorts of benefits that I hadn’t expected, and I’m now convinced that this should be st...
Is Ruby dead? Hell no! - Analyzing RubyGems stats for 2016 | Infinum
At the beginning of last year we used the official Rubygems data dumps which consisted of a Postgres database and a Redis store to create an overview of the Ruby ecosystem in 2015. Due to Rubygems simplifying their stack, we could no longer access...