Announcing rubybench.org
Announcing rubybench.org
Speeding up Rails 4.2
Optimising Rails 4.2 using Flame Graphs and Memory Profiler
Ruby 2.1 Garbage Collection: ready for production
The article “Ruby Garbage Collection: Still Not Ready for Production” has been making the rounds. In it we learned that our GC algorithm is flawed and were prescribed some rather drastic and dangerous workarounds. At the core it had one b…
Vintage JavaScript begone
One major issue all “one page” JavaScript apps have is updating clients, this is how I solved this for Discourse.
Call to Action: Long running Ruby benchmark
Wishing for a long running ruby benchmark.
Commenting powered by Discourse
Lessons learned moving commenting to Discourse
Demystifying the Ruby GC
The Ruby GC may seem exceedingly complex to some, in this article I try to shed some light on it.
Live restarts of a supervised unicorn process
I just added some helpers that allow you to easily perform live restarts of unicorn processes with zero downtime.
Discourse in a Docker container
Recently I spent some time working on a Docker container for Discourse to ease our deployment story.
Discourse as my blogging platform
This Blog is now 100% powered by Discourse