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Automating MySQL schema migrations with GitHub Actions and more

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Automating MySQL schema migrations with GitHub Actions and more

In this deep dive, we cover how our daily schema migrations amounted to a significant toil on the database infrastructure team, and how we searched for a solution to automate the manual parts of the process.

Rails

Linking a Webcam Directly to Rails' ActiveStorage

Not long ago, I was tasked with developing a feature to allow users to upload pictures, not from the traditional sense that we already know but from the webcam. This was novel!

Understanding Rails secrets/credentials

I personally have found Rails credentials really hard to understand.

Ruby

Elapsed time with Ruby, the right way

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Ruby lambda, proc, block

If you are not familiar with Ruby then you could be quite scared by multiple articles about lambda, proc, block and different styles of how they could be defined and used.

Beyond Ruby

Scaling Bitbucket's Database

To improve scalability and performance, we debated various approaches to take better advantage of our replicas, and ultimately agreed on a solution. Here's a look at how this works.

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Blast from the past

Asynchronous Active Record migrations

This post describes how we can shave off the migrations part from the deploy process. What we came to at Shopify is asynchronous migrations that are eventually applied after a deploy and controlled by humans.