Image serving with Content Addressable Storage, S3, and ImgIx

Marketplacer and its websites served user-provided web-optimised images from the same webserver as its actual application, and stored both the original image and the web-optimised versions on disk. Each image’s filename was…

Structured Logging for Rails using ELK

This post describes the structured logging setup used at Marketplacer to publish information about each request to our Rails application to our ELK stack.

Our primary goal for our ELK platform was forensics & long term usage analysis of…

The Four Pillars of Motivation

As a developer, designer or other direct contributor to the product creation process, there’s a single principle that drives morale, productivity and motivation:

I feel that I am effectively working on something I find interesting and meaningful in a…