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A DSL for generating Amazon Web Services CloudFormation templates.
AWS Cloudformation templates are an incredibly powerful way to build sets of resources in Amazon's AWS environment. Unfortunately, because they are specified in JSON, they are also difficult to write and maintain:JSON does not allow commentsAll st...
From 25 Minutes to 7 Minutes: Improving the Performance of a Rails CI Pipeline
We recently hit a new record at Gusto: 6 minutes and 29 seconds.That time is how long it took to run the test suite for our largest application at Gusto, a Rails monolith. This is the fastest our continuous integration (CI) had ever run in the com...
Rails 6.1 adds support for signed ids to Active Record
There are many ways of generating a signed link for implementing things like invitation email, unsubscribe link or password reset feature. You could add a token field on the model, use JWT tokens. But in the upcoming Rails versions, the functional...