Image serving with Content Addressable Storage, S3, and ImgIxMarketplacer and its websites served user-provided web-optimised images from the same webserver as its actual application, and stored both…Jul 5, 2018Jul 5, 2018
Structured Logging for Rails using ELKThis post describes the structured logging setup used at Marketplacer to publish information about each request to our Rails application to…Jul 5, 2018Jul 5, 2018
The Four Pillars of MotivationAs a developer, designer or other direct contributor to the product creation process, there’s a single principle that drives morale…Apr 16, 2018Apr 16, 2018
How long are you spending in Capybara?Our full-system integration tests take too long to run: between five and eight minutes in a highly optimised CI environment, and over an…Mar 14, 2018Mar 14, 2018
Four Tools That Let Me Love JavascriptI’ve traditionally thought of myself as a backend developer: my career, before management, was in Java, C, Perl, Python and Ruby. I admit…Aug 25, 2017Aug 25, 2017
