A Review Of Immutability In Ruby

When two or more objects use the same piece of mutable data, they all have the ability to break each other in ways that can be hard to debug. If the shared data is immutable, however, these objects can not affect each other, and are effectively decoupled.

The Case Against Dynamic Typing

In this post Jezen Thomas shows us a way, you have the flexibility of dynamic typing, and the sanity of compile-time verifiable function signatures.

Ruby Classes

Classes are at the heart of object-oriented programming (OOP). A class is a way of grouping related variables and functions into a single container. This container is called an "object".

Sprinkle some HATEOAS on your Rails APIs

Let’s remind ourselves what REST is and then continue on something else that supplements REST, called HATEOAS.

API of the future

Is the current state of API here to stay? Do REST-based APIs scale well? Do they provide an optimal experience for integrated clients?

Effectively Scaling Sidekiq Workers

Recently we helped a client overcome widespread errors in Sidekiq. What follows are the high level changes that were implemented, each presented as an observation and a solution.

10 benefits of Code Review for the win

More features equal to more bugs, more complexity — uncovered cases and unexpected behaviour. In software engineering, we call it a technical debt. One of the working solutions to reduce technical debt is Code Review.

The time for rigor will come soon enough

You might have heard: The bigger the scope of your problem, the more rigorous your approach must be. It applies to projects and organizations alike.

Resugan

Simple, powerful and unobstrusive event driven architecture framework for ruby