Sep 24, 2018 · 3 minute read · Comments
ruby-on-railsruby
Ruby on Rails comes with ActiveRecord for persistence of data. It provides a powerful querying interface every developer working with Rails is familiar with. The methods are chainable and the most common queries can be expressed in a pretty readable way. For the others, you can drop one level lower and write Arel queries which is the library powering ActiveRecord under the hood.
Basic sorting One of the tips for performance when fetching data is to rely on the database to do the sorting and not do it in Ruby.
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Sep 4, 2018 · 8 minute read · Comments
htmlelm
Custom input elements are a lot of hassle and even more with Elm, probably not impossible.
TL;DR
Elm recently [released version 0.19](Elm relase) which brings [many nice things and improvements](release notes) but it is also removes support for native modules. While Elm 0.18 is still alive it can be safely expected that new packages or new versions of existing packages will target only the new version forcing an update.
What are native modules Elm 0.
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Jun 17, 2018 · 4 minute read · Comments
golang
In contrast to many languages, Go has a very nice built-in package for parsing arguments passed to an application called flag. There are many libraries which build on top of it, e.g. kingpin, but as long as your application’s requirements for arguments are simple enough the standard library package is completely satisfactory.
The API is pretty simple: you define your flags by calling functions flag.Int, flag.String or flag.Duration which take three arguments, the name of the flag, default value and a usage guide, and return a pointer to a variable which will be populated by the actual value passed by the user.
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Jun 9, 2018 · 8 minute read · Comments
postgresscaling
As Enectiva, an energy management solution, grows, the amount of data we need to store grows as well. We’re definitely not in terabytes but some of the tables are becoming pretty hefty so we decided to implement sharding. Our biggest pain point are pre-calculated consumption data so we naturally started there.
Basic concept Due to the nature of the data and the access patterns, we decided to go with traditional sharding by customer.
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Mar 27, 2018 · 2 minute read · Comments
tools
Recently, I’ve been digging into Sup which is a very simple deployment tool written in Go. It allows to declare named clusters of servers (called networks), Bash commands to be performed and sequences of commands (targets) in a YAML config file so that you can run things like:
sup production deploy # or sup production rollback Sup is a very handy tool for deployment of applications which don’t require a lot of setup which Go applications tend to be.
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Mar 19, 2018 · 2 minute read · Comments
rubytools
IntelliJ Idea is my IDE of choice for all development across multiple languages. Support for different languages varies and improves at different rate but I find it useful most of the time.
Suddenly, last week my Ruby tests stopped running. Whenever I wanted any Ruby test to run, the execution failed with:
.../spring-2.0.2/lib/spring/sid.rb:39:in `getpgid': No such process (Errno::ESRCH) I run Ruby tests with Spring preloader which has been the default for Rails applications for last few versions and Idea integrates nicely with it.
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Jan 9, 2018 · 2 minute read · Comments
golang
When I read and review code, I sometimes come across constructions which seem strange, dubious or generally weird. Before I comment, I like to check my assumptions and understanding of the behaviour first. Go makes this really simples with Playground where you can run short snippets of code and share them with colleagues.
Yesterday, I came across a conditional with division which just asked to get zero divisor. I assumed the code would fail but it was strange it hasn’t manifested, so I went to check.
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Nov 12, 2017 · 3 minute read · Comments
rubyelmgolang
Yesterday, I attended a coderetreat organized by Zonky, specifically by Jaroslav Holaň and Dominik Moštěk. It sort of was and wasn’t a part of the Global day of coderetreat. That will take place next Saturday, November 18, 2017, and there are events all over the world. However, the day before is a public holiday here in Czech republic creating a nice extended weekend, ideal to get away from work, programming, city etc.
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Oct 3, 2017 · 1 minute read · Comments
ruby
Last weekend, I attended EuRuKo 2017 in Budapest. It was great to see a lot of familiar faces after skipping last year.
700 Ruby developers (and others) flocked to Budapest in order to conference hard for two days, see 14 talks, almost as many lightning talks, chat, and party.
There have been many tweets from the conference and people have written about their experiences there. I’d just like to point out few high points.
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Sep 18, 2017 · 7 minute read · Comments
postgresruby-on-rails
Back when Ruby on Rails was moving to use Postgres as its default database, there was a lot of comparison articles and videos. From one of them, I remember a simple query which surprisingly works in MySQL:
SELECT category_id, COUNT(*), email FROM users GROUP BY category_id OK, we want to get the number of users is each category identified by its ID and an e-mail. Which e-mail? I don’t remember if MySQL returns the first or last in each group but it does not complain and it returns something.
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