Michael PearsonImage 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…3 min read·Jul 5, 2018----
Michael PearsonStructured 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…7 min read·Jul 5, 2018----
Michael PearsonThe Four Pillars of MotivationAs a developer, designer or other direct contributor to the product creation process, there’s a single principle that drives morale…4 min read·Apr 16, 2018----
Michael PearsonHow 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…3 min read·Mar 14, 2018----
Michael PearsonFour 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…3 min read·Aug 25, 2017----