Invoca Engineering Blog

Discovering better ways to code with Ruby, Rails, and open source

Gabriel Kent

Mar 10

How humans interact with large data sets

A smarter approach to filtering by using a Star Schema

Justin Bell

Feb 26

How Invoca is Fighting Call Fraud and Robocalls in 2020

Gabriel Kent

Nov 6, 2019

How to reduce alert noise and increase service performance visibility

A journey in alert thresholds…

Omeed Rabani

Sep 20, 2019

The 6 W’s of Running a Disaster Simulation

(What, Why, When, Where, Who, and most importantly… hoW)

Gabriel Kent

Aug 15, 2019

Bringing back Rails IdentityMap caching

Once upon a time, Rails had a feature under ActiveRecord called: IdentityMap.

Gabriel Kent

Apr 23, 2019

S3 Region Failover and Alerting

Once upon a time, there was an AWS S3 outage for the US-EAST-1 region which lasted ~5 hours. This led to…

Amy Schultz

Apr 1, 2019

Santa Barbara Capture the Flag Version 4

We just finished up our fourth capture the flag event in…

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Logging metrics for Rails web requests using Active Support Instrumentation

A walkthrough of how we utilized existing instrumentation hooks in Rails to create some really useful Kibana dashboards and Grafana…

Nick Burwell

Mar 7, 2019

Ruby Constants with Rails

Learn best practices for constants and how to properly include and require files to prevent “already initialized” warnings

Colin Kelley

Oct 11, 2018

Our New Performance Score for Signal AI

We came up with a formula that shows the accuracy and precision of our real-time conversational insights in an easier, more helpful way.

Mike McCourt

Jul 19, 2018

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