Better File Uploads with Shrine: Processing

This is the 4th part of a series of blog posts about Shrine. In this part I talk about doing file processing with Shrine, both on upload and on-the-fly.

A Comparison of Automatic Image Tagging Services and APIs

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What's Happening in Your Ruby Application?

In Ruby we don't have fancy tools like Java, but we have the `ObjectSpace` module which can give you some information about the current state of your application.

Five ways to write a flaky test

Test flakiness is a part of technical debt that ruins your everyday work. It prevents new code from being shipped just because CI is red, and you have to go and restart the build. It creates frustration from the fact that your code may be broken, when in fact it’s not.

Monitoring Sidekiq Using AWS Lambda and Slack

As a remote company, we use Slack to stay in touch with everyone AND to manage/monitor our infrastructure (hello #chatops). We can deploy from Slack and be notified of infrastructure and application errors.

Using the Push API with VAPID

Sending push notifications in Ruby or Node.js on the open web using the Voluntary Application server Identification (VAPID) protocol.

Understanding caching in Postgres - An in-depth guide

Caching can be considered an important aspect in tuning database system performance. While this post is mainly focused on postgres, it can be easily compared and understood with other database systems.

Row Fragmentation: Share the Mutex

At Blue Apron, we have a very unique challenge of ordering a lot of food for a lot of people. To put this into perspective, think about the last time you ordered food for a party and multiply it by 10,000 now do that every week.

Fire And Motion

Feeling stuck? How to get going so that, sooner or later, you’ll win.

Makara

A Read-Write Proxy for Connections; Also provides an ActiveRecord adapter.