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Obie Fernandez: Pioneering AI in Ruby on Rails Development
In this episode of the Maintainable Software Podcast, Robby speaks with Obie Fernandez, Chief Scientist at Olympia, about the integration of AI into modern software development. Obie shares his unique perspective on leveraging AI to enhance the ma...
Easy to Overlook PostgreSQL Performance Issues in Rails Apps
If your database uses an SSD disk (hint: it does), these default settings will likely harm your app’s performance. As a result your database is less likely to choose an index instead of a sequential scan. Seq scans are both CPU and memory-intensiv...
A decoupled approach to relaying events between Stimulus controllers | justin․searls․co
Each major version of Stimulus has improved this story, adding features like Outlets and a convenience method for dispatching namespaced events. At this point, Stimulus's built-in API covers the majority of ways you'd need to trigger controller be...
You should use the Ruby on Rails logger block syntax
Passing strings to the Rails logger methods (eg. Rails.logger.info(…)) causes unecessary object allocations, and if you’re calling methods to generate data for your log messages then it can cause unecessary CPU work too. In this post I’ll show you...
Railing against time: tools and techniques that got us 5X faster tests
Slow testing is a drag for any project, but can be especially painful for enterprise-level projects operating at a large scale. This can lead to CI lagging, slower deployment times–and a developer experience that is just plain boring. Evil Martian...
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