Ken Alex FassoneinCarwow Product, Design & Engineering5 Things I wish my grandfather told me about ActiveRecord and PostgresIt’s been more than a year since we had a huge TV campaign, we had tables growing up to 30M rows. Since then we had a book club focused on…Jun 16, 20172Jun 16, 20172
Ken Alex FassoneinCarwow Product, Design & EngineeringHow shared learning saved my lifeI was 22. Imagine you’re on a sailing boat with your father, you woke up at 5 in the morning, in the middle of a storm. The sky is pitch…Apr 7, 2017Apr 7, 2017
Ken Alex FassoneinCarwow Product, Design & EngineeringClean your CSS from unused selectorsHave you ever experienced any of these scenarios?Sep 20, 2016Sep 20, 2016
Ken Alex FassoneinCarwow Product, Design & EngineeringProblems with concurrent Postgres indexes (and how to solve them)Since I read the article linked below:Aug 22, 20164Aug 22, 20164
Ken Alex FassoneinCarwow Product, Design & EngineeringSpeed up website page loading (part 1 - Tools)Over time the loading speed of our homepage increased. I can’t say for sure when it started happening or if the problem has always been…Jun 27, 20162Jun 27, 20162
Ken Alex FassoneinCarwow Product, Design & EngineeringHandling slow requests on Heroku the hard wayWe recently started a TV ad campaign and we got a huge boost in traffic to our website. We planned for it and made lots of optimisations to…Feb 4, 2016Feb 4, 2016
Ken Alex FassoneinCarwow Product, Design & EngineeringGit commit dashboard in MeteorHere at carwow we allocate our Fridays to side projects, performance improvements, and internal tools.Jan 25, 2016Jan 25, 2016
Ken Alex FassoneinCarwow Product, Design & EngineeringMoving from heroku scheduler to clockwork and sidekiqWe recently moved away from heroku scheduler and start using clockwork and with ActiveJob. The added value of such a move is massive:Jan 8, 20162Jan 8, 20162
Ken Alex FassoneinCarwow Product, Design & EngineeringJavascript autocomplete on Vim for a Rails projectI worked for a couple of years in a C++ shop and got used to one of the best autocompletes available for vim, called ‘YouCompleteMe’. After…Jul 31, 2015Jul 31, 2015
Ken Alex FassoneinCarwow Product, Design & EngineeringTesting your site’s performance using ApacheBenchThe other day we had a huge slowdown on some pages of our website, and when I investigated the cause I re-discovered a great tool for…Jul 24, 2015Jul 24, 2015
