Claps from David Biehl
Performance Reviews Are a Waste of Time
This post is contributed by Xavier Shay, who teaches our Engineering Leadership course. He was most recently Director of Payment Engineering and Analytics at Square, where he coached managers and senior leaders across the company.
6 Reasons Why JavaScript’s Async/Await Blows Promises Away (Tutorial)
The misunderstood Docker tag: latest
Docker images have a tag named latest which doesn’t work as you expect. I’ve listened to numerous speakers and Docker 101 talks only to see this misrepresented too often. Because tags and versions are so very instrumental in almost all deployment processes, it’s…
Debunking the Java Performance Myth
I’ve previously looked at the likes of Spring Boot and how comparatively bloated it could be considered for simple microservices. One of the questions that cropped up that made me think was, how does performance differ across the languages that I covered?
Setting up Sidekiq, Redis on AWS Elastic Beanstalk with ElastiCache
Sidekiq has been my favorite tool for setting up background processing in Ruby on Rails applications. Mainly I use it for delivering emails, and it can take a little effort to get up and running for the first time…
