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David Heinemeier Hansson on SQLite | High Performance SQLite
David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails, discusses SQLite and its use in BasecampI tweeted at you, like, an hour ago, and and here and here we are. So I I tweeted at you because I saw Daniel Vassallo talking about their instance of Camp...
From Sleep to Speed: Making Rdkafka Sync Operations 16 Times Faster
As an open-source developer, I constantly seek performance gains in the code I maintain. Since I took over rdkafka from AppSignal in November 2023, I promised not only to maintain the gem but to provide a stream of feature improvements and perform...
Comparing SQLite based Rails cache stores – Oldmoe's blog
If you are running a production Rails application using SQLite then you are probably using SQLite as a cache store as well. Compared to something like Redis or Memcached, SQLite offers a potentially much larger caching space and a significantly hi...
Set up a Rails Development Environment with Dev Containers
I will walk through the steps my team followed to set up a pretty nice Rails development environment using Docker and VS Code Dev ContainersI recently worked on rewriting a super old Rails app (Rails 2 Ruby 1.8.7). We felt a bit burned by the fa...
Once a Maintainer: Rafael França - by Allison Pike
The Rails Core member on new releases and balancing pushing the community forward with stabilityI guess I always wanted to be part of Rails Core, at least as soon as I knew what the Rails Core team actually was. But in reality, how it came to be i...
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