Harlow Ward

Tracing gRPC calls in Golang with Google Stackdriver

Ruby based ETL pipeline with Iron.io and Redshift

As the data requirements of our Business Intelligence team grow we’ve been leveraging Iron.io’s IronWorker as our go-to platform for scheduling and running our Ruby based ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) worker pipeline.

Interservice communication with Redis and Sidekiq remote workers

As our infrastructure continues to grow (and we continue to extract core services) we’re consistently having to sync data between applications.

One of the most common mistakes we see when a…

How to stub external services in tests

Requests to external services during test runs can cause several issues:

• Tests failing intermittently due to connectivity issues.
• Dramatically slower test suites.
• Hitting API rate…