Typically you’ll find .PDF’s are pretty hard to work with unless you have the original file. However at Jobcrate, we have to analyze every single application and resume that comes our way.

Reading Ruby Code is an on going series on code reading that explores the ROM library. In this post we explore domain specific language (DSLs)

An introduction to the concept of design patterns in ruby world, with an overview of one of the most commonly used ones: the Template Method pattern.

Some time ago we needed to make a simple stress-testing of our application to get an idea of where we are going, and find out whether we should take a break and pay some attention to optimizations or not.

Integration tests are high-level tests meant to ensure that different parts of an app work together.

Software engineers go crazy for the most ridiculous things. We like to think that we’re hyper-rational, but when we have to choose a technology, we end up in a kind of frenzy 

This article’s aim is to give you a very quick overview of how Kafka relates to queues, and why you would consider using it instead.

A sure sign of my descent into senility is bitchin’ and moanin’ about “kids these days,” and how they won’t or can’t do anything hard any more.