RUG::B

With the modern days of microservices, we often time face the challenge of wanting to bootstrap new services in a very short time. Our development environment has to be capable of maintaining multiple versions of different dependencies which adds a much higher burden on development. Finally, the statement "It works on my machine" is way more common than what we hope for.

Docker and other containerization techniques promise to encapsulate your application requirements within an isolated space and this way you guarantee that it works exactly the same way everywhere, however, in practice the containerization promise is challenged by lots of factors.

In this talk, I will try to go through lots of tips and tricks to improve your docker setup within the ruby sphere all the way from development to production.

Ruby Quiz is Back!

Oh wow, the Ruby 2.7 release looks packed! Let's have another edition of Ruby Quiz and dig into all the funky new syntaxes!

Checkout the previous editions on Idiosyncratic Ruby.

At some point most growing companies face the problem of the database instance being too small to keep all the data required by the application. What can you do when resizing a DB instance is not an option anymore? One approach is to split one database into multiple ones, each of them on a separate machine. This is called 'sharding'.

This talk will explain how we implemented sharding inside of our Rails application, what problems we had, and how we addressed them. You will also hear how this approach has helped us grow and how we plan to use it in the future.