It’s the classic champagne problem that most successful web apps will deal with – there are so many users on your site that things are starting to get bogged down. Pages load slowly, network connections start timing out and your servers are starting to creak under heavy load. Congra ...
Operating at Facebook scale is far from trivial. With 1.49 billion monthly active users (and growing 13 percent yearly), every 60 seconds on Facebook 510 comments are posted, 293,000 statuses are updated, and 136,000 photos are uploaded. And there lies the challenge of serving the masses e ...
Ruby on Rails (“Rails”) is a popular open source framework, based on the Ruby programming language that strives to simplify and streamline the web application development process. Rails is built on the principle of convention over configuration. Simply put, this means that, by defau ...
Hi! I have been using Ruby on Rails for a significant amount of time - 5 years (as for me it’s quite long period). In this article I will try to sum up my experience and answer a question: why I’m still using Rails and why you should (or shouldn't) use it. Related ...
Working on an oldish Rails project, I came across some smelly ActiveRecord code that begged for some refactoring love. I also spent some time speeding up pages with slow/many database calls. Between those two experiences, I felt the inspiration to write-up some “Back to Basics” Rails D ...
When Ruby on Rails, a web application framework written in the Ruby programming language, was first released as open source back in July 2004, it stumbled to rise in the rankings as one of the top programming languages. But in 2006, Apple announced that it would be shipping Ruby on Rails w ...
Yes, learning Rails is only a small part of learning Rails. That’s because… Learning Rails is not about learning Rails! There are some mind-maps scattered across the Internet that try to explain why learning Ruby on Rails is hard. The main reason? It requires you to know a lot of di ...
Cassandra moves up to rank #7 in the DB-Engines Ranking, overtaking Microsoft Access. Part of its success lies in the fact that it is different. To many database enthusiasts, becoming more popular than Microsoft Access might not sound like a good enough reason to crack open the Champaig ...
Non functional testing ensures that a system/application meets the specified performance requirements. In non functional software testing, by performance we do not only mean response time, but several other factors such as security, scalability and usability of the application as well. ...
Are you considering Cassandra or MongoDB as the data store for your next project? Would you like to compare the two databases? Cassandra and MongoDB are both “NoSQL” databases, but the reality is that they are very different . They have very different strengths and value propositio ...